If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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