Alex Noya > Alex's Quotes

“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'

I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
― Mae West

“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
― Mae West

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
― André Gide

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Without a positive representation in the mythos to consolidate its sociocultural existence, homosexuality remains completely vulnerable to a resurgence of homophobia and scapegoating.”
― Gilles Herrada, The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love

“The homosexual discourse can no longer ignore that in nearly all cases homosexual relationships in the ancient world were just another expression of male privilege.”
― Gilles Herrada, The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love

“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”
― Helen Exley

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980