"The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality."

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Source : "Rewatching the Queer Canon, Part 4: Fassbinder’s Gaze" by Oliver Skinner, www.indiewire.com. March 7, 2014.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#Stupid Quotes #Enough Quotes #Homosexuality Quotes

“You can feel a lot of things, and that's okay. Channel that into your passion.”
“I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”
“International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1952). “Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944”
“Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.”
“For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradictThe hopes of my youth?...”
“...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.”

Source : W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”
“For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.”
“It stank pretty bad, of course: manure was caked all over the wagon. But we were free. Right then I was elated with a sense of how faithful God is to his promises; I was free, and I was smiling joyfully on a manure wagon. As we ambled along, I laughed to myself when I thought of God's sense of humor in delivering us that way. Even today, the smell of manure reminds me of freedom.”

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