

“Deda me je opomenuo: „Ti nikada nećeš da odrasteš!“ Ja sam mu odgovorio: „Šta mogu!“ Mama me je branila: „On nema vremena za to!“ Ja sam stalno pokušavao da odrastem kao i ostali ljudi, ali se odmah desilo nešto novo i mi smo ponovo ostali ono što smo bili.”
― My Family's Role in the World Revolution: and Other Prose
― My Family's Role in the World Revolution: and Other Prose

“...insofar as an American thinks that the sex he or she is having is an intimate, private thing constructed within a space governed by personal consent, she or he is having straight sex, straight sex authorized by national culture; she or he is practicing national heterosexuality...”
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“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Lolly Willowes
― Lolly Willowes

“Nije li čudno što se ljudi tako rado bore za svoju vjeru, a tako nerado žive po njenim zakonima.”
― Grička vještica I - VII
― Grička vještica I - VII

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Come Back, Dr. Caligari
― Come Back, Dr. Caligari
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