Paul Monette Quotes

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• The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship…
• 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…
• When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you…
• Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.
• We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better…
• Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.
• The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
• Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that I am part of something…
• But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full…

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