How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
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Amit Ray
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
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Nayyirah Waheed
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Horace Walpole
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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Criss Jami
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
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Carl Sagan
More Quotes By Alison Bechdel
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.
Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.
Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.
