oh_me_ghost

Quotes 3061

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

- Rebecca West

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Interviewer - Youve written about the theme of foreignness a good deal.
Margaret Atwood - Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of...
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Maybe a very psychologically healthy person can have a literalistic view. Someone who is already fully capable of loving, and being loved, and working successfully within a carrier they like. But for someone who cannot do that, or will not, they benefit from a different type of exploratory relationship with religious concepts, and so the Gnostic route is better for them. And not the body...
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Bless her.

My enemy

Bless him. My enemy too.

I dont have the strength to wish disaster upon them.

And its not because Im better than that.

I dont even have the will.

Maybe if good things happen to them they wont have to be such cunts, or such fucked up sons of bitches. They wont have any reason to be annoying. So god that...
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Lots Wife, by Anna Akhmatova.

The just man followed then his angel guide
Where he strode on the black highway, hulking and bright;
But a wild grief in his wife's bosom cried,
Look back, it is not too late for a last sight

Of the red towers of your native Sodom, the square
Where once you sang, the gardens you shall mourn,
And the tall...
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Pestilence.

Everybodys sick. But nobody is dieing, which is nice.

There ought to be a newspaper article or something about all the sickness. It seems noteworthy. Not significant or even meaningful, just noteworthy. Even people who dont get sick are getting sick with the never-ending sore throat, plus the miscellaneous extras. And did you know that HIV now kills in 2-3 months. Nice. Oh yeah,...
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Please do not shoot the pianist.
He is doing his best.
- Oscar Wilde

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Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding out youre exactly the same. All I feel...
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Oddly, in Genesis, theres extensive use of the word let. Let there be X. As if god is just allowing things to be as they are already going to be. With or without his blessing. Let there be ____. As if to say, Im not going to stand in the way of the creation that is already happening on the earth. Im going to let...
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That which doesn't kill us makes us assholes.

Conformity. Shame for not conforming well. Everybody but the fool conforms. Maybe he can't. Suffice it to say he doesn't. Thus a fool.

Oohm, the werewolf, the werewolf
Comes to hide, alone.
Hell leave and break the branches where hes gone.

Once I saw him in moonlight
When bats were flying.
Saw the werewolf, and the werewolf was crying.

Crying, Nobody know, bah no, bah knows
How I loved the man
As I teared off his clothes.

Crying, Nobody to know. Nobody knows my pain,
When I see...
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Quotes 7491

Mr. Lies of the International Order of Travel Agents. We mobilize the globe. We set people adrift. We stir the populace and send nomads eddying across the planet. We are adepts of motion, acolytes of the flux. Cash, check, or credit card. Name your destination.

Angels in America

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A man comes from the dust, and in the dust he will end, and...
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