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| Though I believe it sinful to be queer, it has at least saved me from becoming a pillar of the establishment | | Uncategorized | |
| Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. | | Uncategorized | |
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| To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention --on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God. . . | | Uncategorized | |
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? | | Uncategorized | |
| To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word "Intellectual" suggests straight away A man who's untrue to his wife | | Uncategorized | |
| We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know | | Solidarity | |
| We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. | | Uncategorized | |
| We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility. | | Uncategorized | |
| We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. | | Uncategorized | |
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. | | Uncategorized | |
| What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters. | | Uncategorized | |
| What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. | | Uncategorized | |
| When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. | | Uncategorized | |
| When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and only later did I discover what had seemed an unimportant brook | | Life | |
| When it comes, will it come without warning/ Just as I'm picking my nose?/ Will it knock on my door in the morning,/ Or tread in the bus on my toes?/ Will it come like a change in the weather?/ Will its greeting be courteous or rough? | | Uncategorized | |
| When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them? | | Uncategorized | |
| When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George and that was the end of it: / They hitched him up to the Army. | | sex war | |
| Within these breakwaters English is spoken; without / Is the immense, improbable atlas. | | Uncategorized | |
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