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"I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else."
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"My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen."
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"I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word."
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"All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before."
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"My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time."
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"I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did."
People

"The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear."
Fear

"We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others."
Health

"I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall."
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"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."
Courage
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