with all its gloom, it still was a place of my own
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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"The next time a girl wants a little powder-room change," she called, not teasing at all, "take my advice, darling: don't give her twenty-cents!"
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so much my idea of comfort that I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating
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"I don't. I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead."
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Of course I like dykes themselves. They don't scare me a bit. But stories about dykes bore the bejesus out of me.
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Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit.
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
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I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.