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“Loving a woman is always political.”

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Nicole Brossard is a Canadian French poet born on November 27, 1943. Her poetry is known for its unique style and profound themes, having a significant impact on Canadian French literature. more

“The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.”

Source: The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress

“Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.”

Way Energy Force My Own Unique Genre Gravity Contemplating Electric Leaving Me Magnetic Synthesis Never Leave Me

Author:Nicole Brossard

“Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.”

Way Important Sometimes Today Life Is Answers Complexes Comprehension Inconvenient Important Questions

Author:Guy P. Harrison

“The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god.”

Christian Process Missing Ignorance Keys Evidence Beginning Of Life

Author:Guy P. Harrison

“Getting even has never healed a single person.”

Persons Healed Single Person

Author:Eva Mozes Kor

“I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live ..'”

Said Two Young Three Next Given Morning Five Week Huge Arms Doctors Size Legs Evening Drs Fever Two Weeks Trembling Swollen Injection

Author:Eva Mozes Kor

“We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.”

Humans Kindness Imagine Army Ran Chocolate Soviet Hug Replaced Cookies Starving Human Kindness Hug Me

Author:Eva Mozes Kor

“You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it!”

People Watches Smart Idiot Smart People

Author:Rudolf Wanderone

“Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.”

Way Use Changed Scripts

Author:David Wain

“This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download.”

Rights Battle Performances Paid Songwriters Downloads Sync Turf Baloney

Author:Jonathan Potter

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