"Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them."

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Source : "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

Quentin Crisp

#Hate Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of all nations was amazingly religious and apocalyptic - ghosts and visions, crucifixions and sacrifice, crusaders and holy warriors.”
“Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong.”
“I eat five to seven meals a day and a couple of protein shakes”
“Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.”
“Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.”
“The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.”
“Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.”
“It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.”

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