329 quotes found
“Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).”
“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.”
“Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.”
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”
“A writer who cant use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichs.”
“Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.”
“Seventies macho was both a look moustache, jeans, leather jacket and an attitude cool, heartless, virile that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emo...”
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in In Memory of WB Yeats: You were silly like us.”
“Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.”
“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready to come out.”
“Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history Whites strengths are sex, art and sometimes love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the others domain.”
“Black, white, Latino, gay, straight if any one of them came across a bear in the woods, theyd all taste like chicken.”
“1484Hi Goodreads. My first day. I read all of the time but I must promote my own 2 books - Vulnerabilia and Legacy.VULNERABILIA”
“There was a naked jock on my bed and a thing with tentacles coming out of my toilet. One of these things did not belong, and if you tell me that it was the naked jock, you shouldn't be reading this...”
“Arkady looked at the other man. he felt that he was actually seeing him as a physical being for the first time.....He tried to imagine that body with Bella, with any woman, and found the idea...not...”
“The pending brahpocalypse/ coup d'tat - whatever it was - was much more important than whether a donut-eating Police Officer saw a flying saucer over a gay club or not." - Red Gods Sing.”
“Well what would you have us do, Jason? Swan into a hardware store without any cash and say give us your best rack or well set the adorable button-nosed robots on you for bunny-boiler death by cuddl...”
“It was real sweet, except that he'd drugged me and ridden me to within an inch of my life, and I was still so high I was paralyzed and mute. But other than that, I guess it was pretty romantic.”
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind," Leviticus says. From where I was standing, though, there was no "lying with mankind" going on; it looked more like "one mankind plowing another ...”
“The Gay' is not infectious, the world is not coming to an end, and people are happy. Gosh, how about that.”
