"Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer."

-- Leslie Fiedler

#Comic Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.”
“Sheâ€™s easy to like. Iâ€™ve never understood why thatâ€™s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”
“A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.”
“I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.”
“People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.”
“A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.”
“I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.”
“We, hijras, are not hypocrites. We live our sexuality openly, being truthful to our souls and our bodies. Science and doctors assigned something else to us when we were born - which they didn't have the authority to - but we choose what we are and we are very truthful about it.”

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