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an alternate version of myself project/sutter-gutter

“I have to say that each time I visit with you, I am left wanting to see you more,” he wrote after that. I heard this sort of thing all the time, often in more ardent forms. The sentiment came from married men, single men, men who were divorced, men a few years or a few decades older than me, men w…

—p.4 An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work by Charlotte Shane
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Nora’s most beautiful declaration and act of love project/panopticon-diaries

I love Nora. She is beautiful, and perfectly drawn by Ibsen.

Her need to be accepted. Her fear of presenting herself as she really is.

A woman who says one thing and means something quite different. Who wants to be friends with, and liked by, everyone. Who exclaims, “Don’t be angry with me!” …

—p.208 Changing by Liv Ullmann
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the famous Movie Hero fetches me for dinner

The famous Movie Hero fetches me for dinner. He brings an enormous fir tree covered with artificial silver and imitation pearls. Unfortunately, he resembles my first love and when anyone does that, red warning lights switch on inside me. It is very difficult in America when those lights start blink…

—p.162 by Liv Ullmann
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a dog makes love to a girl

The Playboy king is wearing terry-cloth pajamas. Some girls walk about with long furry rabbits’ ears fastened to their heads and little round tails on their bottoms.

We look at films: A dog makes love to a girl. I think of Pet and hope she will not discover what I am doing.

—p.163 by Liv Ullmann
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seeing each other was a terrible idea inspo/imagined-desire

Seeing each other was a terrible idea. We discovered that, instead of waning, desire had flared up and made a thousand demands with brazen urgency. If at a distance, on the telephone, words allowed us to fantasize, constructing glorious prospects but also imposing on us an order, containing us, fri…

—p.392 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels, #3) by Elena Ferrante