"Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as much a problem today for American filmmakers who cannot conceive of the presence of gay characters in a film unless the specific subject of the film is homosexuality. Lesbians and gay men are thereby classified as purely sexual creatures, people defined solely by their sexual urges."

-- Vito Russo

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“A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.154, Transaction Publishers
“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
“Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.”

Source : Jean Dubuffet (1974). “Dubuffet: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches 1946-1966 ; March, 1974, Donald Morris Gallery”
“All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.”
“To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.”
“A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.”
“Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties sheâ€™s got on.”
“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The Storyteller: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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