No, I am not ashamed of who I am.
JOHN RECHY, About My Life and the Kept Woman
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- Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. - Joyce Carol Oates
- One must be an inventor to read well. - Emerson
- For me, words on a page give the world coherence. - Alberto Manguel
- If our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative. - Adrienne Rich
- The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
- I will lodge where I have a mind. - Robert Louis Stevenson
- We differ from ourselves more than we do from one another. - Montaigne
- The love of god is apparently the only one we stand since we always want to be loved in spite of ourselves. - Albert Camus
- Oh, life is bitter / Ever since another god has harnessed us to his cross! - Arthur Rimbaud
- If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. - James Baldwin
- My holy of holies is the human body. - Anton Chekhov
- Grasp the good fortune that the ground on which you stand cannot be any bigger than the two feet planted on it. - Franz Kafka
- When you love something as intimately fragile as your own body, you don’t want to hurt anyone. - Martin Amis
- We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. - Kahlil Gibran
- If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. - William Blake
- Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Jane Wagner
- The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde
- Everybody has a plan until you hit them. - Mike Tyson
- She who laughs, lasts. - Kate Clinton
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- "10 Simple Things You Can Do"
- "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
- "Eating with the fullest pleasure—pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance—is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world."
- "For my part, I don’t believe that 'revealed' Truth is ever innocent or benevolent. It can be dangerously evil."
- "How to Feel Miserable as an Artist"
- "I am curious about what film can do with these subjects, how it might transform them uniquely, reinvent them as it were."
- "I used to live in a country called America."
- "I was wrong."
- "It gives you nothing back. No manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold. Nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive."
- "It is simple and beautiful."
- "Like the sea, The web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months."
- "Women may get the blues; men are more likely to get a bullet through the temple."
- A Gay Soldier's Husband
- “I just want to understand. Who is the criminal? Who is the suspect? Who is the judge? Who is executing?”
- “What the right as a whole fears is the erosion of its own social position, the collapse of its power, the increasing incomprehensibility of a world — now overwhelmingly technical and complex — that has changed so drastically within a lifetime.”
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- "boy" defined
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- "How extraordinarily dangerous love is."
- "I dreamt of a glowing footprint,"
- "I like morning sex."
- "In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun."
- "Jesus killed Mohammed"
- "Know me"
- "Like I was Jesus"
- "Marriage? Babies? Please. I want to be illegal. I want to live outside the mainstream."
- "They taste good to her."
- "This is the sex I'd been looking for…"
- "Touch me there."
- "Why I recently walked away from Christianity."
- "Yes. We have God."
- "You do not need an iPod. Memorize poetry instead."
- 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
- As one of my friends said, “If God had wanted men to be fucked, he would have put a hole in their ass.”
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- Alison Pick – The Dream World
- C. D. Wright – Rising, Falling, Hovering
- C.P. Cavafy – The Collected Poems; The Unfinished Poems, trans. Daniel Mendelsohn
- Chris Hedges – Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
- Christian Bök – Eunioa
- Edmund White – City Boy
- Gaston Bachelard – The Poetics of Space
- James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
- Jay Parini – Why Poetry Matters
- Jim Nason – The Fist of Remembering
- John Giorno – Subduing Demons in America
- Marcia Tucker – A Short Life of Trouble
- Marguerite Yourcenar – Memoirs of Hadrian
- Michael Gorman – Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century
- T.S. Eliot – Four Quartets
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