cant
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I love this quote by Ntozake Shange: “i cant count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i was taught to hate myself in.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
“Trying to do the least with the most, him being 58. and he doesn’t want to help me financially. also he turns everything on you cant take ownership for anything,” said another.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024
“You cant understand it. You would have to be born there,” says the tortured Quentin in William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023
“I cant tell if she has me or Amos’s eyes,” Norton wrote on Jan. 30, 2020, after seeing the latest picture of Eden at the hospital.
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2023
Or: She cant see without her glasses. hardly/scarcely/no sooner.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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