Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way, ' is Richard Holmes's version. Stacy Schiff
I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
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Sarah Kay
You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The...
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Henry Rollins
You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.
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Deb Caletti
You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.
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Carrie Ryan
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.
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Jennifer Aniston
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As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is...
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.
History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.
