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Keith Donohue
Keith Donohue

Keith Donohue is an American novelist known for his unique narrative style and profound character development. His works often explore the complexities of modern life and the exploration of personal identity. Born in 1960, Donohue's career began in the 1990s, and he has published several novels to date. more

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“Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? It terrifies me. Do women act thus? Does June go to Henry when she wants him? Does she mount him? Does she wait for him? He guides my inexperienced hands. It is like a forest fire, to be with him. New places of my body are aroused and burnt. He is incendiary. I leave him in an unquenchable fever.”

“This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.”

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”