Top 22 Sarah Schulman Quotes
#1. Anna liked magazines. They were glossy machines. The only technology that she could fold. She read them on a regular basis because they were absorbing. Each one came out on a specific day of the week and was good for an hour of absorption.
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#2. The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.
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#3. You're not user-friendly. You're too needy. You have no social currency. You're a freak. Without a normative side, you can't get in. That's it. Sorry.
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#4. I want to be a witness to my own time because I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that I'm gonna live a lot longer than most of the people I meet. If I'm gonna be the only one still around to say what happened, I'd better pay close attention now.
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#6. Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.
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#7. You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.
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#8. Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.
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#9. People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional
they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.
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#10. What I tend to tell my students is, "When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable."
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#11. All along, he had believed instinctually that his broken heart had something to do with the collapse of culture. He wanted to blame it on economics instead of on the fact that she was a fucking bitch.
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#12. Some people have sex by putting fishhooks in each other. Couple this act with a simple understanding of the basic function of all living creatures to expand and contract. Now, try that with fishhooks.
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#13. Do most gay women love each other?" Doc asked.
"A lot of them love closeted movie stars.
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#14. Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.
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#15. I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, 'Sarah, you've been doing so much,' and the straight people were like, 'So, Sarah, what have you been doing?
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#16. Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does to them.
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#17. They were both deciding not to be what others wanted them to be but to brand themselves for the world to see. To do their own packaging, so to speak, and to direct their powers to their specific target audiences.
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#18. I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.
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#19. MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.
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#20. It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?
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#21. Straight people are the most pathetic of all. I've never seen such a miserable group of people in my life. They don't know anything about themselves
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#22. People don't become what they were brought up to be, people become themselves. (p.146)
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