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Kevin Sessums Inspirational Quotes (38)

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I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back telling me that Mr. Shawn [William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 to 1987] just didn't like this or didn't like that about what I submitted.
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Weenie was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?
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I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.
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If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world.
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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I was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
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The first time I remember our being socially in the same place was after we graduated and [author, investment counselor, philanthropist, and fellow 1950s Yalie] Peter Wolf had a party at his house in the Hamptons.
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When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David.
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I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.
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If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would have said I don't think there are any. There may have been a few who were shy with girls. You have to understand, this was the 1950s.
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My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of the county. I think my father was okay about my going into journalism, though.
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When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
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David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.
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I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.
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I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife.
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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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