"Caught between the tongue and the taste."
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"Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public."
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"Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling."
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"Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am."
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"Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world."
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"They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics."
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"Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time."
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"To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing."
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"We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over."
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"A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive."
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"Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project."
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"It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together."
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"I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me."
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"Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song."
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"I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure."
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"Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."
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"All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies."
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"Lava bread makes you passionate."
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"When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain."
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"My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it."
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