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Hal Duncan Quotes

Homophobia’s just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice Picture Quote #1

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general Picture Quote #1

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system Picture Quote #1

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there Picture Quote #1

Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we’re turned away, sent to the ghetto Picture Quote #1

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake Picture Quote #1

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But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with actual ethical critique, rationalizing their emotional response, and enforcing their moral certainties with passion, establishing them-selves, subtly or brutally, as arbiters of reason Picture Quote #1

Homophobia’s just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice Picture Quote #1

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse Picture Quote #1

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets Picture Quote #1

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Homophobia’s just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice (Hal Duncan Quotes) Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general (Hal Duncan Quotes) The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system (Hal Duncan Quotes) I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there (Hal Duncan Quotes) Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we’re turned away, sent to the ghetto (Hal Duncan Quotes) Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake (Hal Duncan Quotes) But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with actual ethical critique, rationalizing their emotional response, and enforcing their moral certainties with passion, establishing them-selves, subtly or brutally, as arbiters of reason. (Hal Duncan Quotes) Homophobia’s just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice. (Hal Duncan Quotes) Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse (Hal Duncan Quotes) Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets (Hal Duncan Quotes)