"expectation isn't the same as desire"

-- Margaret Atwood

#Expectations Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.”
“Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.”
“Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.”
“You don't need to know who I'm dating. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I'm fine with everybody not knowing that.”
“You're born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you're a man or a woman. It just depends on how extreme you wanna go.”
“I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.”
“Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.”
“The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.”

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