“Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your life; and for people who went without lovers for years, that was all they had.”
― Dancer from the Dance
― Dancer from the Dance
“What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.”
― The Shape of a Pocket
― The Shape of a Pocket
“During those snowy New England winters, besides learning to rise at five to study calculus and trudge two miles through the drifts for breakfast down the road, he had suppressed some tremendous element in himself that took form in a prudish virginity. While his life was impeccable on the surface, he felt he was behind glass: moving through the world in a separate compartment, touching no one else.”
― Dancer from the Dance
― Dancer from the Dance
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