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This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible. -- Michelle Tea
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So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden. -- Michelle Tea
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To have someone know you so thoroughly and not want you. Is there anything more painful? -- Michelle Tea
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She wouldn't have sex with me in public bathrooms. Little things like this haunted me. I was only twenty-five. -- Michelle Tea
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One would think that having grown up broke would make one desperate for financial stability, eager to rest in the economic security of a good job. Rather, it gave me the freedom to take chances. I knew how to get by on next to nothing. -- Michelle Tea
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I had played all my angles, tossed my heart with a wet rattling thump onto her snare drum, I Love You I Love You I Love You. -- Michelle Tea
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She kissed her like she'd been stranded on an island, notching each stranded day onto a fallen coconut, slowly losing her mind. She filled Michelle like weather, worked her mouth like a cherry stem being tongued into a knot. -- Michelle Tea
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I had an awful time quitting jobs. It was so irresponsible, and being inherently irresponsible, I knew I had to be vigilant. So instead I would make them fire me. I have had girlfriends who employ this strategy in relationships, which is bad, but in regards to employment it is ok. -- Michelle Tea
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It was a sort of loser luck, I guess, the luck of the cigarette-smoking ghost-grannies who shuffled the scuffed linoleum, but I'd take it over no luck at all. -- Michelle Tea
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You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible. -- Michelle Tea
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She was magnificent. She wasn't so much a person as an event, a gigantic presence. -- Michelle Tea
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She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once. -- Michelle Tea
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It was a huge obsession taking over my life, every injustice leading logically to a related and worse injustice until I was standing in the center of a pulsating ring of pain and torture and oppression and the only real solution was to just kill yourself. Just get off the fucking fucked-up planet. -- Michelle Tea
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She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity. -- Michelle Tea
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The worst thing about depression is how true your vision seems, like misery is the only correct perspective and everything you think when you're happy is a sham. I didn't even want to be happy anymore because I'd rather live in honest misery than fake bliss. I -- Michelle Tea
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I was so sad that day. My heart was trying to climb from my body. -- Michelle Tea
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You are right where you should be / now act like it -- Michelle Tea
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Being cast out of society early on made you see civilization for the farce it was, a theater of cruelty you were free to drop out of. Instead of playing along you became a fuckup. It was a political statement and a survival skill. -- Michelle Tea
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How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror? -- Michelle Tea
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The girls Iris went through wound up cracked vases no longer fit for flowers, leaky dust collectors. After Iris, girls left town or started fucking boys. She ruined everyone. -- Michelle Tea
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How many lovers did a person need, anyway? -- Michelle Tea
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I wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour. -- Michelle Tea
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This upscale Marin whorehouse allowed the men to come and pick from the lineup of women like we were donuts in a pastry case. -- Michelle Tea
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Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet. -- Michelle Tea
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You can't get lost if you have nowhere to be. -- Michelle Tea
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They were living exciting, crazy, queer lives full of poetry and camaraderie and heart-seizing crushes. I mean, not that night, but generally. That night they were bored. -- Michelle Tea
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I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.
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I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem as certain. I figured it was time to act. I considered a small press through RADAR, my literary non-profit. -- Michelle Tea
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I felt pure the way you feel after you vomit, kind of light and strangely holy, like having taken a sauna in hell. -- Michelle Tea
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Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative. -- Michelle Tea
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In Buddhism, when you have a problem, YOU have a problem. It's yours. When you get over the tantrum you inevitably throw about the injustice of this, it's actually quite nice. If YOU have the problem, you also have the ability to solve it. -- Michelle Tea
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I don't mind doing awful things as long as somebody else does. I would totally jump off the bridge, thanks for asking. -- Michelle Tea
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Oh my God, Michelle thought, I think we're making love. It was a term everyone barfed at. No one wanted to make love, people wanted to fuck, to take each other's skin apart with knives and pin it back together with needles. -- Michelle Tea
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I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don't know, get drunk, run around, take my shirt off and get kicked out of someplace. You know, live a little. -- Michelle Tea
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In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell. -- Michelle Tea
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I barely knew her at all. She was on hold, someone I'd be friends with when she got her shit together. And then she died. -- Michelle Tea
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The heartbreak of having written and published a first book is that the world then expected you to write a second. -- Michelle Tea
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Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet. -- Michelle Tea
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Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren't hateful per se assume they won't get anything from a queer book. -- Michelle Tea
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The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to. -- Michelle Tea
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Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance. -- Michelle Tea
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No, I was not going to work. I was an artist, a lover, a lover of women, of the oppressed and downtrodden, a warrior really. I should have been somewhere leading an armed revolution in the name of love and no, I was not going to work. -- Michelle Tea
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I kissed her hand. My seduction technique is best filed under Obvious. -- Michelle Tea
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They were twenty-seven already, in no time at all they'd be thirty, terrifying. No one knew what would happen then. Michelle couldn't imagine anything more than writing zine-ish memoirs and working in bookstores. -- Michelle Tea
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It just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that. -- Michelle Tea
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Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your ankle was a pillow and finally you pulled me up and in my sleep i placed your hand above my heart, like i forgot i didn't live there anymore -- Michelle Tea
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It smelled of oily flowers, like the worn pillowcases of long-ago lovers. -- Michelle Tea
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You can't let the apocalypse rule your life. -- Michelle Tea
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There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do. -- Michelle Tea
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The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus. -- Michelle Tea
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You would have to forget everything that came out of her mouth in order to later enjoy it on your cock. -- Michelle Tea
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Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed. -- Michelle Tea
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Older Fags and Younger Fags, Like Legally Young. Daddies. Zeus and Ganymede.
Ganymede was a child, Ziggy schooled her.
Yeah, You Were There, Michelle retorted, On Mount Olympus. You Were Working the Door. You Carded Ganymede. -- Michelle Tea
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Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders. -- Michelle Tea
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I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant. -- Michelle Tea
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Michelle felt that if people didn't like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently. -- Michelle Tea
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I'm A Queer Poet Too! She stressed queer not because she walked around identifying as a queer poet but so that the youth understood she would fuck her. -- Michelle Tea
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I'm never not going to be interested in young girls who are struggling in poor places. -- Michelle Tea
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I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right? -- Michelle Tea
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Don't you ever fucking write about me! Andy hollered, and was gone. -- Michelle Tea
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On the first day of the end of the world, Michelle got out of bed, walked into the kitchen, and smacked some roaches -- Michelle Tea
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There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community. -- Michelle Tea
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The Leatherman was a lesbian phenomenon and life ran more smoothly because of it. -- Michelle Tea
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Nearly all the queers Michelle knew were fuckups in one way or another. -- Michelle Tea
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Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did ... Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot. -- Michelle Tea
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To be a butch girl in high school, to be better at masculinity than all the men around you, and then to be punished for it! -- Michelle Tea
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Writing was the antijob, the fuck you to all jobs, her claim on her autonomy, what kept her feral and free. -- Michelle Tea