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“Hollywood is built on leveraging queerness. Tucking it away when needed, pulling it out when beneficial, while patting themselves on the back. Hollywood doesn’t lead the way, it responds, it follows, slowly and far behind. The depth of that closet, the trove of secrets buried, indifferent to the consequences. I was punished for being queer while I watched others be protected and celebrated, who gleefully abused people in the wide open.”
― Pageboy
― Pageboy
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“We do not realize the extent of the energy we are losing until we find where it is seeping from.”
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― Pageboy
“There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?”
― Nails and Eyes
― Nails and Eyes
“But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship,”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
Alain de Botton
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