"There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals."

-- Michael Eric Dyson

#Choices Quotes #Identity Quotes #World Quotes

“Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.”
“It's not a character flaw to become an adult.”

Source : "Interview: Kenneth Lonergan on why ‘Margaret’ shouldn’t be perfect" by Guy Lodge, uproxx.com. July 10, 2012.
“I took one look at you That's all I meant to do And my heart stood still.”
“Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?”
“Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle”
“Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.”
“I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.”
“I want to see something I've never seen before.”

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