X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fepigraph_quotes.md;h=4d83281821cc8d7fddd1c48529307623707af989;hb=7a3fdd77a4b2031c4969d7d73629da95a84a00a1;hp=3ae86d113f5330ddb009fc29cc82cc7ee7639d92;hpb=610ce6dbe60d881d0fd471f48cd0e2e2227d2068;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md index 3ae86d1..4d83281 100644 --- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ looking for a use— +> _There's a heart that must be free +> To fly +> That burns with the need to know +> The reason why +> Why must we all conceal +> What we think, how we feel? +> Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?_ +> +> —"Reflection", _Mulan_ (as performed by Christina Aguilera) + > "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known." > > —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection @@ -11,10 +21,6 @@ looking for a use— > > —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan -> She's AFAB enby but I'm not quite sure what that means -> -> —["Girl All the Bad Guys Want"](https://genius.com/Bowling-for-soup-girl-all-the-bad-guys-want-lyrics) by Bowling for Soup (paraphrased) - > What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. > > —Susan Sontag @@ -38,14 +44,9 @@ looking for a use— > > —Steven Goldberg, _Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance_ ----- +quote that _Blindsight_ passage about an evil god setting males and females against each other -(An Infovist's Advisory) -> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with." -> -> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape." -> -> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan +---- (Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...) > The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy. @@ -61,16 +62,6 @@ looking for a use— > > —_Portal_ end credits song -(Review of Nevada) -> You sound so innocent -> All full of good intent -> You swear you know best -> But you expect me to -> Jump up on board with you -> And ride off into your delusional sunset -> -> —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles - (Collective Guilt, Collective Shame) > "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." > @@ -239,3 +230,17 @@ Less obviously fitting— > —"Right There in Front of Me", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_ http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ + +> A woman came up to me and said +> "I'd like to poison your mind +> With wrong ideas that appeal to you +> Though I am not unkind" +> +> —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants + +> Here's to those who love not too wisely, no, not too wisely, but too well +> To the girl who sighs with envy when she hears that wedding bell +> To the guy who'd throw a party if he knew someone to call +> Here's to the losers, bless them all +> +> —"Here's to the Loser"