The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
ADRIENNE RICHI don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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