Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon - middle-class Americans - have binocular vision. We all are raised by straight people and grow up with straight people and in straight families, but we all have this totally other way of looking at things. Increasingly as I get deeper into middle age, that is why I resist plunking for any one camp. Because I have this delicious sort of experience of being able to see things in two ways.
You come out of the gate, you've got something new, you're subversive, nobody's ever done it before. But by your fifth novel and your fourth literary… - Daniel Mendelsohn
You come out of the gate, you've got something new, you're subversive, nobody's ever done it before. But by your fifth novel and your fourth literary…
- Daniel Mendelsohn
Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Osc… - Daniel Mendelsohn
Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Osc…
The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic. - Daniel Mendelsohn
The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.
Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's in your own life, hopefully, is ex… - Daniel Mendelsohn
Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's in your own life, hopefully, is ex…
Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimat… - Daniel Mendelsohn
Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimat…
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are great writers … - Daniel Mendelsohn
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are great writers …
I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the height of the theory craziness. It had a b… - Daniel Mendelsohn
I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the height of the theory craziness. It had a b…
The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very cl… - Daniel Mendelsohn
The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very cl…
I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about someone, or you love something, … - Daniel Mendelsohn
I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about someone, or you love something, …
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