"So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person."

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Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

Abdellah Taia

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Waste Quotes

“I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.”
“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
“Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.”
“Once the reality sets in of a superhuman intelligence being in control of every aspect of the infrastructures we rely upon for everyday life, we will simply have to try to come to an accommodation with that entity.”

Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.
“Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.”

Source : "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.
“It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.”
“The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.”
“That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.”

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