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“ It would take me the better part of growing up to understand that intimacy, more than sex or even sexual orientation, was the universal battleground, and no easier for straight than gay. ”

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Tears are part of the leeway of the common areas of a hospital, since so many have to do their crying away from the patient's bed. You don't care who sees you cry in the lobby: it was port of entry for all the sorrows, and one gave up all one's previous citizenship at the border.

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The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

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I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

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Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

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