"Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted."
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"A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman."
"It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone."
"Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living."
"You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous."
"You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door."
"Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader."
"Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it."
"Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well."
"It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw."
"It's fear that makes a situation dangerous."
"Some allies are more dangerous than enemies."
"A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands."
"The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions."
"The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow."
"We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous."
"Life is weird, great and dangerous."
"I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No."
"One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it."
"It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring."