"The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for."

-- Paul Monette

#Struggle Quotes #Gay Quotes #Justice Quotes

“The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see aheadâ€¦”
“You can't applaud a referee.”
“We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.”

Source : Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”
“We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.”
“At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.”
“Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answerâ€”good, honest, noble work.”
“Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.”
“Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.”

Source : "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" by Lester Bangs, edited by Greil Marcus, Random House/Vintage Books, (p. 222), 1988.

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