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Invaluable for the "etymology" of point names. Made me fall in love with the language and begin to fall in love with culture, which I suspect will be lifelong passions. The language has an elegance and playfulness to it which is often mistaken as sim
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“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
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“Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.”
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“According to a Kabbalistic rabbi, in the Messianic age people will no longer quarrel with others but only with themselves.”
― The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life
― The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life
“Violence is the method by which the ruthless few can subdue the passive many. Nonviolence is the method by which the active many can overcome the ruthless few.”
― The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
― The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
“There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of gay origin, of gay cultural and material reproduction, plural, multi-capillaried, argus-eyed, respectful, and endlessly cherished.”
― Epistemology of the Closet
― Epistemology of the Closet
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