“The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.”
Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. 5 (hyphen (not en- or em-dash) so in original).
“Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches, and getting involved in it only leads to misery and dissatisfaction.”
Source: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 9, “Coin-Operated Boy” (p. 157)
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