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“Real men don’t moisturise.”

Book:Our Young Man

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Our Young Man

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Edmund White

Edmund White, an American novelist born on January 13, 1940, is known for his delicate prose and profound emotional descriptions. His works cover a wide range of themes, including homosexuality, history, and literature. more

“Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, worried eyes, with restless eyes. Worried because formulas do not work out; hungry for security and yet sensing its disappearance from the earth. In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried men, reassure themselves that business is noble and not the curious ritualized thievery they know it is; that business men are intelligent in spite of the records of their stupidity; that they are kind and charitable in spite of the principles of sound business; that their lives are rich instead of the thin tiresome routines they know; and that a time is coming when they will not be afraid any more.”

Men Life Business Restless Security Fear

Book:The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men.”

Men Women Feminism

Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.”

Men Family

Book:The Chronology of Water

Source: The Chronology of Water

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