#kinsey

George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with ↗

— Justin Spring

#gay #homosexual #kinsey #secret-historian #tattoo

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#kinsey-millhone #business

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#drama #kinsey-milhone #poor-baby #sue-grafton #sympathy

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves. ↗

— Bill Condon

#anybody #based #defined #kinsey #limiting

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#books #kinsey #leave #like #mind

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#dictate #happy #her #i #improved

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#sue-grafton #v-is-for-vengeance #life

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine. ↗

— Bill Condon

#because #his #i #kinsey #know

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. ↗

— Bill Condon

#get #kinsey #religion #rid #scientifically

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution. ↗