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101 " Yes, I need the money. I mean no, I don’t. It can’t be reduced to money. I can’t explain why I do it. It’s a kind of impulse. "
― Rachel Kushner , The Flamethrowers
102 " A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. "
103 " Sometimes they just sit. Sometimes one turns on a radio and they listen to music, or to the news, but they don’t care about the actual news, just that the radio is issuing a steadyish sound whose particulars they do not have to follow to understand what the radio is actually telling them: life is being lived. No need to be a part of it as long as you know it’s streaming. "
104 " For the face, time relays some essential message, and time is the message. It takes things away. But it’s passage, it’s damages, are all we have. Without it, there is nothing. "
105 " the point of the film....was about being a woman, about caring an not caring what happens to you. it was about not really caring.p.198 "