Laura Antoniou quotes

“Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.”
-- Laura Antoniou

Source : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". "Pucker Up", Issue 1, Winter 1995.

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“A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of greater, senior slaves. Or learning every nuance of their owner's character, so that they can more completely and seamlessly offer themselves at the right time and in the right manner.”
-- Laura Antoniou

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“Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what.”
-- Laura Antoniou

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“This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.”
-- Laura Antoniou

Source : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up (puckerup.com), Issue 1, p. 12, Winter 1995.

#Sex Quotes #Drama Quotes #People Quotes

“What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.”
-- Laura Antoniou

Source : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.

#People Quotes #Safety Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The trouble is, SMers are allowing themselves to be defined by what they are not. We think, "Oh, so many people believe that we're all murderers and rapists, and we have to explain that we're not!" Uh so, a slogan for the gay civil rights movement should be "Normal, Non-threatening and Not After Your Children"?”
-- Laura Antoniou

Source : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.

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“Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.”

Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”

“It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”

“We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.”

“Fantasy is the only truth.”

“Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time”

Source : Adam Lambert ‏@adamlambert, twitter.com. August 1, 2010.

“How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.”

“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”

“Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.”

Source : "Sparks Fly" by James Howard Kunstler and Amory Lovins, www.salon.com. May 27, 2005.

“I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.”

Source : Baruch College Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.