01776cam a2200301 a 4500 ocm39868165 OCoLC ta 210517s1999 nyu 001 0 eng 0609802623 9780609802625 (OCoLC)39868165 PN6084.G35 B66 1999 808.88/2 21 The book of gay & lesbian quotations / compiled & edited by Patricia Juliana Smith. Book of gay and lesbian quotations 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, ©1999. xii, 415 p. "A New England Publishing Associates book." Includes index. 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." Gays Quotations. Lesbians Quotations. Quotations, English. Smith, Patricia Juliana. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 PN6084.G35 B66 1999 PNLIB21062658 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2845 2845