“there are different types of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.”
Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Source: oranges are not the only fruit
“Every great work of art … is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.”
— Azar Nafisi, book Reading Lolita in Tehran
Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
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