"Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?"

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Mean Quotes #Adults Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?”
“I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.”
“Nothing inhibits healing like shame.”
“in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.”
“Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.”
“Lists are how I parse and manage the world.”
“A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.”
“The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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