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People don't grow up — they just begin to overestimate their own importance.

— Richard Summerbell Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary (1985)

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It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.

Abnormally Happy (1985)

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

Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect".

Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary (1985)

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.

Relationship (definition): Liaison usually involving two people and their dirty dishes.

Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary (1985)

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