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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."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else."
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"People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages."
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"As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything."
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"We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay."
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"We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that."
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"If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality."
Time

"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

"It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress."
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"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."
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"Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great."
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