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Paul Monette quotes: Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.

Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.

Paul Monette quotes: Apparently long hair was enough to make you a faggot in Chicago in '68.

Apparently long hair was enough to make you a faggot in Chicago in '68.

Paul Monette quotes: The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

Paul Monette quotes: I suppose we'd been waiting for each other all our lives.

I suppose we'd been waiting for each other all our lives.

Paul Monette quotes: That would be my theme, I thought: once I came out, the world was all windows.

That would be my theme, I thought: once I came out, the world was all windows.

Paul Monette quotes: I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

Paul Monette quotes: I liked being adrift in symbols, beauty for beauty's sake.

I liked being adrift in symbols, beauty for beauty's sake.

Paul Monette quotes: The better you get at being just a shoulder, the more unsexed you become.

The better you get at being just a shoulder, the more unsexed you become.

Paul Monette quotes: Perhaps we were atheists by default, but the matter of God did not come into the equation of our love.

Perhaps we were atheists by default, but the matter of God did not come into the equation of our love.

Paul Monette quotes: When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you

When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.

Paul Monette quotes: Change me, I whispered, change me.

Change me, I whispered, change me.

Paul Monette quotes: It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.

It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.

Paul Monette quotes: To experience love as claustrophobia. In such a twisted paradigm lies the sick legacy of a lifetime in the closet.

To experience love as claustrophobia. In such a twisted paradigm lies the sick legacy of a lifetime in the closet.

Paul Monette quotes: They looked at me, in my hippie garb, with horror and disgust, the Decline of Western Civilisation suddenly plopped in their midst.

They looked at me, in my hippie garb, with horror and disgust, the Decline of Western Civilisation suddenly plopped in their midst.

Paul Monette quotes: As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

Paul Monette quotes: Being different was about something more than just our dicks.

Being different was about something more than just our dicks.

Paul Monette quotes: The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

Paul Monette quotes: Poetry served as a sort of intellectual wallpaper to brighten up the closet.

Poetry served as a sort of intellectual wallpaper to brighten up the closet.

Paul Monette quotes: Lust and the English make no sense to me.

Lust and the English make no sense to me.

Paul Monette quotes: Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.

Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.

Paul Monette quotes: Love and fuck in the same breath, even if it's your last.

Love and fuck in the same breath, even if it's your last.

Paul Monette quotes: Good days are such a mysterious gift that you dare not question them much, and the only problem is they give you a false sense of security.

Good days are such a mysterious gift that you dare not question them much, and the only problem is they give you a false sense of security.

Paul Monette quotes: That as long as I kept them apart, love would be sexless and sex loveless, endlessly repeating its cycle of self-denial and self-abuse.

That as long as I kept them apart, love would be sexless and sex loveless, endlessly repeating its cycle of self-denial and self-abuse.

Paul Monette quotes: Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

Paul Monette quotes: How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.

How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.

Paul Monette quotes: What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.

What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.

Paul Monette quotes: So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love.

So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love.