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The longer i live the more i mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more i know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "transcendental etude
-Adrienne Rich
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The Longer I Live The More I

Adrienne Rich
The longer i live the more i mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more i know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "transcendental etude
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