Laura Antoniou quotes
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“Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.”
-- Laura AntoniouSource : "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.”
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“Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what.”
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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 AntoniouSource : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up (puckerup.com), Issue 1, p. 12, Winter 1995.
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“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 AntoniouSource : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.
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“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 AntoniouSource : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.
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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.
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“Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time”
Source : Adam Lambert @adamlambert, twitter.com. August 1, 2010.
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“How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.”
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“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.
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“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.
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