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“Avoid adjectives of scale. Dandelion broth instead of duck soup. Don’t even...”
– Dean Young, Handy Guide
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“It is the phenomenon sometimes called “alienation from the self.” In its...”
– Joan Didion “On self-respect” 
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“Listen, It does not matter what you say. As a woman, as a woman of color, as a...”
– via PersephoneMagazine
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“Are we not all of us fanatics? I only say what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Loneliness in New York →
Loneliness can be a shameful hunger, a shell, a dangerous landscape of shadowy figures. But it is also a gift. The bluest period I ever spent was in Manhattan’s East Village, not so long back. I lived on East 2nd Street, in an unreconstructed tenement building, and each morning I walked across Tompkins Square Park to get my coffee. When I arrived the trees were bare, and I dedicated those walks...
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“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities,...”
– Jim Carroll, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973 
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“I will have an undergraduate class, let’s say a young white male student,...”
– Gayatri Spivak, The Post-Colonial Critic, 1990
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“Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreaks 
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“What can I hold you with? I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the ...”
– Jorge Luis Borges 
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“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the...”
– Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State, 1871; published 1882 
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