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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.

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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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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 the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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