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The Book of Gay and Lesbian Quotations
Patricia Juliana Smith

The Book of Gay and Lesbian Quotations

Three Rivers Press (Jun 07, 1999)
9780609802625
| Paperback
432 pages | 6.3 x 9.3 x 1.3 inch | 22.19 oz | English
$ 19.95 | Value: $ 4.71
Dewey 808.882
LC Classification PN6084.G35 .B66 1999
LC Control No. 98041956

Genre

  • Reference

Subject

  • Gays - Quotations
  • Lesbians - Quotations
  • Quotations, English

Plot

This unique treasury of memorable quotations from across the centuries and around the world is an outstanding record of gay and lesbian sensibility.Joe Orton on Truth:"There are two sexes. The unpalatable truth must be faced."Eleanor Roosevelt on Curiosity:"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."Rita Mae Brown on Art:"If Michelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller."H.D. on Achievement:"We have not crawled so very far/up our individual grass-blade/toward our individual star."Jean Cocteau on Arguments and Quarrels:"But brawling leads to laryngitis."Boy George on Advice:"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."Florence King on Solitude:"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she."