"I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death."

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Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alison Bechdel

#Kind Quotes #Shame Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.”

Source : In Observer 15 Apr. 1923
“It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.”
“There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.”
“I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.”
“I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.”
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”

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