Patton Oswalt  - Quotes

 I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. 

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Otto Weininger  - Quotes

 There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line. 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had 

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Elizabeth Peters  - Quotes

 His masculinity was only too apparent 

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Norah Vincent  - Quotes

 There is a time in a boy 

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Camille Paglia  - Quotes

 Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel. 

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