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“There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.”
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“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
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Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things to different people. It may have no definitive reading. And a reader may find a meaning in it that the writer never intended, never imagined, yet recognizes at once as valid.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal and the Particular')" ... In claiming the lesbian point of view as universal, she overturns the concepts to which we are accustomed. For up to this point, minority writers had to add "the universal" to their points of view if they wished to attain the unquestioned universality of the dominant class. Gay men, for example, have always defined themselves as a minority and never questioned, despite their transgression, the dominant choice. This is why gay culture has always had a fairly wide audience.
[From the Foreword "Changing the Point of View" by Louise Turcotte]”
― The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
[From the Foreword "Changing the Point of View" by Louise Turcotte]”
― The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
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