Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick quotes
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“If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.”
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“What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.”
-- Eve Kosofsky SedgwickSource : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2000). “A Dialogue on Love”, Beacon Press (MA)
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“I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.”
-- Eve Kosofsky SedgwickSource : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank (2003). “Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity”, p.2, Duke University Press
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“I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.”
-- Eve Kosofsky SedgwickSource : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1993). “Tendencies”, p.2, Duke University Press
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“People are different from each other”
-- Eve Kosofsky SedgwickSource : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2007). “Epistemology of the Closet: Updated with a New Preface”, p.22, Univ of California Press
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Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.
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Source : "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.
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“Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.”
Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The Last Resort: A Novel”, p.275, Open Road Media
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Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.214, Penguin
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“Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.”
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