September 2011
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“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How...”
– Ray Bradbury
Happy Banned Books Week! I wrote on this occasion last year. Go out and read something dangerous.
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“I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery...”
– Colum McCann
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“‘If what you really want is to get people to hear your position and make...”
– Revolution Girl Style, 20 Years Later
I only discovered riot grrl after it was “over,” but it was revolutionary to me. I had grown up a tomboy who didn’t identity with women at all and struggled with how to handle the fact I was supposed to be one. Traditional femininity...
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“I learned about drinking whiskey, specifically bourbon whiskey, from Raymond...”
– “Raymond Chandler and the Blue Dahlia Gambit,” by Michael Norris.
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“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him,...”
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“I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those...”
– Carrie Fisher
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“Music isn’t meant to give you hugs. I’m not here to give you a hug. I’m just...”
– Janet Weiss
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