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• I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I was known for my four years at Yale as David Kramer.

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  Children, Yale, Years

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.

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  Jobs, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money.

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  Sweet, Real, School

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

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  People, Hollywood, Needs

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.

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  Sex, Gay, Blood

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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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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  Writing, Guy, Looks

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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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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  Christian, Narrative, Expanding

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

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  Christian, People, Saved

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

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  Live Life, Space, Littles

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

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  Sobriety, Judgmental, Bumper Sticker

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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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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  Guy, Hot, Looks

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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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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  Things In Life, Aberration, Done

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

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  Acceptance, Asking Why, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another term back then.

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  Term, Shakers

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• "Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

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  Shoes, Matter, Jocks

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal.

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  Mean, Shoes, Jocks

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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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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  Gay, People, Kramer

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.

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  Thinking, Kramer, Said

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.

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  Army, Years, Bars

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.

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  Mother, Thinking, Missing

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

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  People, Knows

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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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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  Father, Thinking, President

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed he was gay. But I do remember when we were all sitting around on a roof one night and Larry turned to me and said, "You do know I'm gay, don't you?" There was a statement made. A declaration. We just never had really talked about it.

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  Gay, Night, Talking

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

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  Writing, New Yorkers, Nations

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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