My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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Oscar Wilde
We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that...
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C. Joybell C.
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
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Fannie Flagg
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.
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Deb Caletti
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
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David Foster Wallace
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The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital- H.
How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
The Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
One person simply can’t be all things to another person — sexually or otherwise–and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long —term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little...
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our...
