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The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.

Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp (b. 1908), British author. The Naked Civil Servant, ch. 9 (1968).

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