"I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself."

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Source : 1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

Harold Brodkey

#Degrees Quotes #Abstinence Quotes #Homosexuality Quotes

“Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.”

Source : Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd
“With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, itâ€™s like a collectible.”
“We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.”
“It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.”
“Anyway, what does mad mean exactly?" Rami added quickly "Aren't we all a little mad? Don't we have to be somehat mad just to go on living, to go on hoping?”
“Fashion's about taking chances, it's about taking risks, and just doing it the way you feel comfortable doing it. If you do that, people will respect it more.”
“Iâ€™ve never been able to understand â€˜faithâ€™ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones â€” by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one.”

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