"Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel" by Kathy Acker, Chris Kraus -

"Writers create what they do out of their own frightful agony and blood and mushed-up guts and horrible mixed-up insides. The more they are in touch with their insides the better they create."

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"The Andy Warhol Diaries" by Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett -

"Skinner’s contention that “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do,”"

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"The Chronology of Water: A Memoir" by Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain -

"The more you describe a memory, the more likely it is that you are making a story that fits your life, resolves the past, creates a fiction you can live with."

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"All I know is that her weird made my weird feel better."

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"NOT ALL MIRACLES COME FROM GOD OR LOOKING UP."

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"I have a desire toward language and knowledge that will blow your mind."

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"sometimes ordinary things are staggering."

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Graphic Novel: The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode

Graphic Novel: The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode

Graphic Novel: The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode

Graphic Novel: The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode

Graphic Novel: The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode

Graphic Novel: The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode

"The Chronology of Water: A Memoir" by Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain -

"I went on to gloriously immerse myself in Derrida and Lacan and Kristeva and Foucault. In Homi K. Bhabha and Ed Said and Gayatri bad ass Chakravorty Spivak. In Dickinson and Whitman and Plath and Sexton and Adrienne you want some of this Rich and Ai and Eliot and PoundBeckettStoppardDurasFaulknerWoolfJoyce (though he kinda always made me want to piss on his grave) SyngeCortazarBorgesMarquezClariceL’InspecteurHenryMillerAnaissexatiousNinDerekWalcottBertoltBrechtPynchonSilko WintersonDjunaBarnesOscarWildeGertrudethemanSteinFlannerymotherfuckingO’ConnorRichardWrightBaldwinToniMorrisonRayCarverJohnCheeverMaxineHongKingstonSapphireDennisCooperKathyyoumakemefeellikemyskinisbeingsheeredoffAcker"

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"The Chronology of Water: A Memoir" by Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain -

"This is something I know: damaged women? We don’t think we deserve kindness. In fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk. It’s threatening. Deeply. Because if I have to admit how profoundly I need kindness? I have to admit that I hid the me who deserves it down in a sadness well. Seriously. Like abandoning a child at the bottom of a well because it’s better than the life she is facing. Not quite killing my little girl me, but damn close."

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"The Chronology of Water: A Memoir" by Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain -

"Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory - but we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear."

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"The Chronology of Water: A Memoir" by Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain -

"Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common."

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