Kathleen Collins Quotes

#1. Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday. Kathleen

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#2. Life has so many tuneless days... what better posture to take than to become a whimsical motherfucker?

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#3. They will pass the winter in this desultory fashion. The

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#4. ...Juliana. Should you cease to exist, so would I.

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#5. ...later she would laugh when she discovered that meaninglessness came from the dark shaft of gloom that surrounded her day and night, and that ecstasy was just a sunny room away.

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#6. She could feel her skin turning darker while he lay there and stared at her; her hair felt not only short but unbelievably bushy.

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#7. It was only sunlight she needed. Pure, delicious sunlight flooding through a room.)

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#8. He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there he was the bravest man I had ever known.

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#9. any life dissected too closely was boring and could only make you fall asleep.

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#10. We needed to be autodidacts; we needed to pass books from hand to hand; we needed to search, and thus be inspired by hard-won effort to create ourselves. We needed to understand that there is power in searching and finding and not having things handed to us.

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