"Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one."

-- Leonard Matlovich

#Lying Quotes #Gay Quotes #Men Quotes

“What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.”
“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.”
“I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.”
“How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?”

Source : "What's so funny about mental illness?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.
“The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.”
“Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.”
“Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.”
“The memory of man is as old as misfortune”

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