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#1

“Face a man with death, let him come out shining, and you might call his bravery simple. Face a small town boy with fame, love, and death, all before legal drinking age, and you will call it anything but simple.”
― Jim Provenzano, Now I'm Here

tags: gay-fiction, now-i-m-here

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#2

“I would learn the varying temperature of erratic desire, the caloric output of longing, and the previously undefined and eventually unbearable weight of first love.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

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#3

“Already, what would become my tribe had begun to die off.”
― Jim Provenzano, Cyclizen

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#4

“Lee followed, more relaxed to be led into the now familiar beauty of candlelight and the soft music of a banquet in that shrine to the dead.”
― Jim Provenzano, Monkey Suits: a novel

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#5

“Snortissimus dorsi.”
― Jim Provenzano, Pins

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#6

“Like the maji on the hill,
I can divinate your presence from afar.
And I’ll follow you until
I can bring you to a perfect world.”

– Deborah Harry, “Accidents Never Happen”

[epigram for Message of Love]”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

tags: epigram

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#7

“How did you...?"
"Stay together?"
I nodded.
"Persistence, I suppose, and pure dumb luck."
"Huh."
"And a little magic."
"I'm sorry?"
"The magic of being needed by just one person.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

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#8

“In his eyes, those dazzling near-black eyes, more important to me than our love or lust or friendship, was a look of pure trust.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

tags: gay-fiction, romance, sequel

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#9

“It was disappointing to discover that sex without love, no matter how much better equipped that other partner was, could still be enjoyable, but not as much, not by a long shot.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

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#10

“People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.”
― Christopher Bram, The Notorious Dr. August: A Riveting Historical Novel of Ghosts, Love, and a Clairvoyant Pianist

tags: humour

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#11

“Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

tags: profanity

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#12

“I felt my heart crack slowly like a pomegranate, spilling its seeds.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

tags: heart, pomegranate

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#13

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: god, humor, life

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#14

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

tags: humor, life-lessons, wrestling

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#15

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#16

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

tags: bad-reviews, critics, literary-criticism, reviewers, writing

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#17

“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

tags: absurd, bad-reviews, boring, complain, literary-criticism, lotr, opinions, reviews, tolkien

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#18

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#19

“The piano teacher did not know whom she taught. She did not know how much it meant to Joshua to play well. She also did not know that the boy had yet to discover his true musical inspiration, a big-mouth, mustachioed gentleman from England.”
― Jim Provenzano, Now I'm Here

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#20

“The Queen T-shirt would guide him. He could wear it proudly in school on Monday. His T-shirt, his royal seal, would guard him from any interference, serve as his silent declaration: I got this the night David kissed me.”
― Jim Provenzano, Now I'm Here

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#21

“As the two boys were released into the empty echoing hallway, not more than ten feet from the closed door, David muttered, "If you ever tell anybody I cried, I'll pound you again."

Some part of Joshua, a part as yet to blossom deep inside, whispered that he was in love.”
― Jim Provenzano, Now I'm Here

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#22

“I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: 1993, interview, the-advocate

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