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A collection of three thousand quotations with subjects ranging from youth and aging to art and literature, and features words of wisdom from Gore Vidal, Cole Porter, and Plato
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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."
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