Daphne Gottlieb Quotes

#1. Fuck yr heroes, I'm saving myself.

Daphne Gottlieb

#2. The frightening truth about desire
it's on but
i don't know
whether i want
to be
her, fuck her
or borrow
her clothes.

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#3. There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.

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#4. In a field. With the moon.
And the dark. And the dirt.
With your mouth. And just one word:
god god god.

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#5. I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've got a fever.

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#6. I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

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#7. That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

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#8. Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself

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#9. I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

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#10. You can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.

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#11. Hypothesis: To burn and not consume.
Hypothesis: To consume and not extinguish.

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#12. I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

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#13. I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

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#14. Come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did
this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

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#15. I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

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#16. I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

Daphne Gottlieb