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Quote by Allen Klein

“Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.”

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Allen Klein, born on April 26, 1938, is a renowned speaker and author. Known for his unique insights and profound perspectives, he has influenced countless individuals through his speeches and writings. more

“Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets.”

Identity Taxes Capitalism Granted Get Involved

Author:Maggie Nelson

“We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.”

Culture Prove

Author:Maggie Nelson

“I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I've named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more clearly after having sketched them for myself and made a place to stand in relationship to them that felt okay enough to last through the course of a book.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Real Sometimes Enough Okay Paradox Burn Out

Author:Maggie Nelson

“I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.”

Language Whole Life Bother Inadequate

Author:Maggie Nelson

“For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a worthwhile one. But for me, hopefully the frontier is alliance-making across all the social issues, whereby people can get over whatever prejudices they're holding in order to keep their eyes on making livable lives for people in all states of vulnerability, no matter what their gender, sexuality, race, class, origin, whatever.”

People Thinking Reason Eye Violence Prejudice Gender Sexuality Hopefully Vulnerability March Better Life Social Issues Pragmatic

Author:Maggie Nelson

“If I had the chance to spend a day with Werner Herzog, I would want there to be a canoe involved. I want to be down in Patagonia or something, and kill some kind of wild beast and skin it and gut it and cook it. And then turn its fur into some kind of layer of warmth. And then trek through the hills.”

Kind Chance Skins Hills Beast Guts Warmth

Author:Jai Courtney

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