castrated QUOTES

1 " Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.

Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.

Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery. "

― Murong Xuecun

2 " Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world. "

― Clement of Alexandria

3 " February 2009
January 4. January 4. January 4. I rubbed the paper on my red calendar. I cried into the little box, into the last day we had sex.
I was a tornado. I puked hurricanes.
I was Jodi Arias. There were no more tears for him.
Swirling eddies of vodka, pills, fattening food, and tears. Vortexes corralled other vortexes. They joined forces with the eyes of other storms far out into the Gulf, and Atlantic, and castrated my heart first, then everything below the neck. Fuck the heart; my brain was mauled into mush. He didn’t have a heart—and possibly, neither did I. The heart had nothing to do with a whirlpool of circles and left and rights I navigated. "

― Christy Heron , Unrequited - One Girl, Thirteen Boyfriends, and Vodka

4 " Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham`s Razor. "