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There's really no such thing as "the voiceless". There are only the deliberately silenced, and the preferably unheard. - Arundhati Roy

An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. (...) The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. (...) it relies on people's predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. - Douglas Adams, The Life, the Universe and Everything

"'Out Of The Past' was the name of the store, and its products consisted of memories: what was prosaic and even vulgar to one generation had been transmuted by the mere passing of years to a status at once magical and also camp." - the first line of Gil's manuscript in Midnight in Paris The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. - Gertrude Stein (character), Midnight in Paris

I want a red dress. I want it flimsy and cheap. I want it too tight. I want to wear it until someone tears it off me. I want it sleeveless and backless, this dress, So no one has to guess What’s underneath. I want to walk down the street, Past Thrifty’s and the hardware store, With all those keys glittering in the window. Past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old doughnuts in their café, Past the Guerra brothers slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly, Hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders. I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick. I want that red dress bad. I want it to confirm Your worst fears about me; To show you how little I care about you, Or anything except what I want. When I find it, I’ll pull that garment from its hanger like I’m choosing a body; To carry me into this world, Through the birth-cries and the love-cries too, And I’ll wear it like bones, like skin. It’ll be the goddamned dress They bury me in. ...

To summarize: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe