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"Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen."
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"We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes."

"She was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing to her interminable. If life had to be looked at in terms of high moments. or peaks, then nothing had 'happened' to her for a long time; snd she could look forward to nothing much but a dwindling away from full household activity into getting old."

"No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock."

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

"I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call."

"So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love.So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents' suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpeper's bitterness is growing palpable in this tiny town and I will NOT bury Grace's body--and I am a boy waiting--for the heat and the fruitfulness of summer, waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girl."

"So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years."

"You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for."
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"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."

"Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with."

"If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings."

"Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty."

"Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred."
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