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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... - MORE 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

homosexuality

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Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conve... - MORE Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

Anna Quindlen

addiction | common sense | smoking and smokers

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Not for nothing does it say in the Commandments 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any image' ... Every image is a sin.... When you lo... - MORE Not for nothing does it say in the Commandments 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any image' ... Every image is a sin.... When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

Max Frisch

image-making

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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It... - MORE And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

Rudyard Kipling

art

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