In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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Unknown
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself...
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Rob Sheffield
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
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Unknown
Why is the measure of love loss?
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Jeanette Winterson
More Quotes By Edmund White
The principles you know determines what you get
God chose to save you for a purpose
True respect respects all men, it values all people.
The world seems to have certain criteria with which it judges the value of people.
People will rather pass by the weak, the lame, the beggars, the orphans, the tormented, the widows and take their large offerings to church, to the man of God who already has a mansion and jets , what a shallow mindedness.
