Richard Summerbell quotes

“Liaison usually involving two people and their dirty dishes.”
-- Richard Summerbell

Source : "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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“Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as pornography.”
-- Richard Summerbell

Source : "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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“The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.”
-- Richard Summerbell

Source : "The Ubyssey" (student newspaper of the University of British Columbia), February 9, 1979.

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“All that is required of us, in our new sexual ethic, is that we have sex in a way that favours us more than it favours our diseases.”
-- Richard Summerbell

Source : "The Body Politic" (magazine), June 1983.

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“It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.”
-- Richard Summerbell

Source : "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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“Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".”
-- Richard Summerbell

Source : "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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“Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.”
-- Richard Summerbell

Source : "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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“[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.”

“In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.”

“The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.”

“Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

“What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.”

“Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”