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Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s fresh cup of coffee.
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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?
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Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.
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The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.
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There is no greater power on this earth than story.
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Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.
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You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.
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- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front? - Yes - I have warned them all.
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Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.
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No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.
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Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?
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Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.
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There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.
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On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.
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Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.
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It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.
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