National Socialist Party

It is not necessary that you and I live, but it is necessary that the German people live. And it can live if it can fight, for life means fighting. And it can only fight if it maintains its masculinity. It can only maintain its masculinity if it exercises discipline, especially in the matters of love. Free love and deviance are undisciplined. Therefore, we reject you, as we reject anything which hurts our people. Anyone who even thinks of homosexual love is our enemy.

Official view of homosexuality issued by National Socialist Party, May 14, 1928, as quoted in:

Sherman, Martin. "Bent." New York: Applause, 1979; p. 78.

Marcus

...to be a fine story writer is to be an artist of language, someone who uses sentences to produce feeling.... The sentence, as a technology, is used for so many rote exchanges, so many basic communication requirements, that to rescue it form these necessary mundanities, to turn it into feeling, is to do something strenuous and heroic. (Ben Marcus, Introduction to "The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories")

Wenderoth

I'm a cute little puppy in a Pound. Sometimes other customers are like people wandering through and not choosing me. Other times they're lie Pound employees, just getting done what they need to get done. Sometimes I think, Which one of you will take me home and train me to be good. Sometimes I think, Which one of you will put me to sleep.

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At bottom, they say: get more out of life. More what? If it's just more meat, more Coke, more sex, more images, more of everything...then the idea makes no sense. Or rather, it makes too much sense, neurotically overloading us with it. Sense is the ultimate event for us talkers. I know, but we're vivid there in it only when its brutality is humbe, unemcumbered, and free of greedy systems. (Joe Wenderoth, "Letters to Wendy's")