Perry Brass Quotes
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The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
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Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.
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Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.
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We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.
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Be reckless in your intensities.
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Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.
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Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?
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Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.
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Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.
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Have hot, wild sex with a friend. Then go out and do something stupid, like bowl, afterwards.
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Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.
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One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.
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The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.
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Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.
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The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.
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Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.
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Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.
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Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.
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Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.
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Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?
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Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.
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The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.
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Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it.
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There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.
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Three great ways to lose a lover: Talk to him the way your mother talked to your father. Berate him in public because everybody loves an audience. Contrast him to your friends, and compare him with his predecessors.
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If you've been taught to keep every part of you to yourself, don't expect people to come knocking on your door to run their hands over the choice parts-either for your pleasure or theirs.
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The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.
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Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.
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Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.
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There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.
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