The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.
– Christopher Bram
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- God’s love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move. – Billy Graham
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- Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration. – Kazuo Ishiguro
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- If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living? – Christopher Bram
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- Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist? – Christopher Bram
- An obsessed reader figured that -˜Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for -˜is a man I dreamt up’. – Christopher Bram
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- In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up. – Christopher Bram
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- A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés. – Christopher Bram
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- Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in -˜In Memory of WB Yeats’: -œYou were silly like us. – Christopher Bram
- A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one. – Christopher Bram
- It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going. – Christopher Bram
- Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex. – Christopher Bram
- It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio. – Christopher Bram