All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

• Me: [anything]
• NW: oooooooooo gurl

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

• Me: [basically and literally anything]
• NW: You are a model though.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

let me tell you

So congratulations, North Carolina. Last night, you struck a decisive blow for loneliness. And tonight, as you go to sleep beside your heterosexual life mate, you can rest assured that all across your great state, a gay man or lesbian woman is crying themselves to sleep in solitude and making your relationship stronger with each tear.

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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Working in the atelier [at Givenchy] was fundamental to my career…. Because I was a tailor, I didn’t totally understand softness, or lightness. I learned lightness at Givenchy. I was a tailor at Savile Row. At Givenchy I learned to soften. For me, it was an education. As a designer I could have left it behind. But working at Givenchy helped me learn my craft.

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.

[D]o you fit the mold you’ve carved for yourself?

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

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