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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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Personal Development

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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Personal Development
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"As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are."
Being

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

"Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images."
Success

"One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model."
Family

"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
School

"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."
Religion

"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."
Design

"When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family."
Family

"I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move."
Mortality

"My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value."
Freedom
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