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> [As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/as-a-lifelong-pacifist-quaker-and-a-gay-man-i-despair-that-gays-and/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

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## More by Ned Rorem

> [Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/greatness-is-not-the-effect-of-which-inspiration-is-the-cause-we-are/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/intelligence-is-silence-truth-is-being-invisible-but-what-a-racket-i/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/if-a-composer-could-state-in-words-what-being-a-composer-means-he/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/perfection-is-no-more-a-requisite-to-art-than-to-heroes-frigidaires/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/anyone-can-be-gay-it-s-no-accomplishment-but-only-i-can-be-me/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/inspiration-could-be-called-inhaling-the-memory-of-an-act-never/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/the-great-don-t-innovate-they-fertilize-seeds-planted-by-lackeys-they/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/if-music-could-be-translated-into-human-speech-it-would-no-longer/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/as-a-lifelong-pacifist-quaker-and-a-gay-man-i-despair-that-gays-and/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [“We endow our poor lovers with godly traits, and then destroy them for being mortal. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/we-endow-our-poor-lovers-with-godly-traits-and-then-destroy-them-for/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/all-men-are-forced-into-one-of-two-categories-those-with-eleven/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/art-s-the-biggest-vanity-the-assumption-that-one-s-view-of-peace-or/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [In music the present is extended.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/in-music-the-present-is-extended/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [“Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. The same holds true for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/sooner-or-later-you-ve-heard-all-your-best-friends-have-to-say-then/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

> [To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-rorem/to-start-writing-about-your-life-is-from-one-standpoint-to-stop/)

[Ned Rorem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-rorem/)

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