“I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want the press to write about me... it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 121 of 169
“The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.”
“It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.”
“Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.”
“Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.”
“The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.”
“The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.”
“Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.”
“I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.”
“It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.”
“The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.”
“I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.”
“If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned, that's what those things are there for in the first place.”
“For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.”
“Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.”
“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous.”
“Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us”
“Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.”
“If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.”
“Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.”