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"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."
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"Appreciation is a better motivator than pain."

"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."

"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."

"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."

"You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there."

"Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price."

"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."

"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."

"No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied. If today I run at a speed of 100, I keep an aim of running at 200. World has gone far ahead and we need to match that level."

"Many of you think about your childhood and particularly about things that did not work out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved and what you aspire to do in the times to come.""
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"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for."


"Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering."


"If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us."


"Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique."


"I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think."


"If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence."


"Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't."


"People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives."


"Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better."
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