Quotes of: Captain-america Keyword

At first, you fall in love. You wake in the morning woozy and your twilight is lit with astral violet light. You spelunk down into each other until you come to possess some inner vision of each other that becomes one thing. Us. Together. And time pas...

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adv...

The Glass Menagerie

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change? Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grab...

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By most astounding stroke of luck and infinitesimal porti...

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm worried. I see things shifting from United We Stand to God Bless America. I don't believe in God Bless America. I don't believe a higher power is stan...

Love Is the Higher Law

...Subordination of the state to Christian values is precisely what the early Puritans, even those in the tradition of the Mayflower Pilgrims, aimed to do. The First Amendment notwithstanding, large numbers of the American public (especially churchgo...

When Did Jesus Become Republican?: Rescuing Our Country and Our Values from the Right-- Strategies for a Post-Bush America

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

Common Sense

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

Democracy in America

Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.

Democracy in America

The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.

Democracy in America

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America