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• Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
• Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
• I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and…
• If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There…
• To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
• Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
• The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love…
• If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive…
• I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice…
• Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
• Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
• Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I…

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