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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.


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LARRY KRAMER Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
LARRY KRAMER I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay...
LARRY KRAMER AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could ha...
LARRY KRAMER Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a ...
LARRY KRAMER By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
LARRY KRAMER Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to reall...
LARRY KRAMER The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as i...
LARRY KRAMER Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let&...
LARRY KRAMER There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But h...
LARRY KRAMER I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi...
LARRY KRAMER Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death thr...
LARRY KRAMER I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t...
LARRY KRAMER We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried...
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