"In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape."

-- Beatrix Campbell

#Gay Quotes #Cycling Quotes #Identity Quotes

“You can't lie to your soul.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.363, Random House
“Jesus," Dante interjected when the heavy quiet in the vehicle seemed endless. "All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha?”
“When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.”

Source : Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com
“If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?”
“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”
“To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.”
“Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.”
“A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.”

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