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Painter of Goats's avatar

'He lit a cigarette. His glass of whiskey lit a cigarette too. “I can only truly love my best friend,” he said, “but not in a gay way. Women wouldn’t understand it. They’re too gay.” Both of the cigarettes agreed.'

This is why I refuse to date novelists.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

the answer is-Fernando Lamas.

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

A rude Canadian? Must be a mutant.

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Vienna Woods's avatar

Once again, I say, you should meet some of my students.

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Vienna Woods's avatar

The politically correct term is<a href="http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/archives\/categories\/politics\/rights-freedoms\/general-2\/women-become-persons.html" target="_blank">persons</a>

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Vienna Woods's avatar

Any day with a Gore Vidal quote is a good day.

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Vienna Woods's avatar

<i>It's not that the Canadian mode is unintelligible to us—if anything, you seem less able to parse your own pieties than we are—but it's a headache to hold that pose.</i>

Is he saying that Canadians don't swear? Has he ever heard of Maclean and Maclean? <a href="http://www.macleanandmaclea..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.macleanandmaclean.com/">http://www.macleanandmaclea...

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Bourgeois Nerd's avatar

When I rule the world, black women will be allowed to wear their hair however they so chose: afro, wig, straightened, weaved, however they like it! No one will ask to touch it or ask dumb questions about their grooming habits. Just glorious freedom, for all, about their hair! (Unless it looks like shit and we get to make catty comments about it behind their backs, as god intended.)

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