TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Patricia Juliana TI - The book of gay & lesbian quotations SN - 0609802623 AV - PN6084.G35 B66 1999 U1 - 808.88/2 21 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Three Rivers Press KW - Gays KW - Quotations KW - Lesbians KW - Quotations, English N1 - "A New England Publishing Associates book."; Includes index N2 - 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." ER -