You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about. They might endure situations you can never know anything about.
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When health is lost... JOHN GAY The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the gro... ROSS GAY Thirteen years I took on this last book. GAY TALESE Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them. GAY TALESE Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people. GAY TALESE I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about. GAY TALESE The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being ... GAY TALESE For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work. GAY TALESE Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise famili... GAY TALESE News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all. GAY TALESE I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. GAY TALESE Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is... GAY TALESE But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what... JOHN GAY To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone... PETER GAY Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money eno... JOHN GAY Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been m... JOHN GAY How many saucy airs we meet,
From Temple Bar to Aldgate street! JOHN GAY Who hath not heard the rich complain
Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barr'd from every use... JOHN GAY What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But... JOHN GAY Learning by study must be won;
'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. JOHN GAY A man should be religious, not superstitious. JOHN GAY Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg'd a partner in the trade. JOHN GAY In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree. JOHN GAY The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. GAY TALESE O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. JOHN GAY Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them! JOHN GAY I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them. JOHN GAY The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade. GAY HENDRICKS A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si... JOHN GAY Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either. JOHN GAY Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, ... JOHN GAY Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their ... JOHN GAY As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body te... GAY HENDRICKS Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. JOHN GAY How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of mora... JOHN GAY Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husb... JOHN GAY The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. JOHN GAY There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. JOHN GAY Shadow owes its birth to light. JOHN GAY Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the ... JOHN GAY We only part to meet again. JOHN GAY Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. JOHN GAY But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the... JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. JOHN GAY A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a cont... JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save. JOHN GAY With thee conversing I forget the way. JOHN GAY I never, with important air,
In conversation overbear.
. . . .
My tongue within my lips ... JOHN GAY What happiness the rural maid attends,
In cheerful labour while each day she spends!
She grate... JOHN GAY How bless'd, how envied, were our life,
Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!
But man, cur... JOHN GAY There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self JOHN GAY Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows,
Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. JOHN GAY The brave
Love mercy, and delight to save. JOHN GAY The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread,
Are opening roses in the lily's bed. JOHN GAY The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
Wit... JOHN GAY Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied;
They rail, reviled; as ofte... JOHN GAY Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part. JOHN GAY A justice with grave justices shall sit;
He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. JOHN GAY A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd. JOHN GAY What boots it on the lineal tree to trace
Through many a branch the founders of our race. JOHN GAY If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the
wind for revealing them to the tree... JOHN GAY So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. JOHN GAY For he as studious--of his ease. JOHN GAY Studious of elegance and ease. JOHN GAY Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. JOHN GAY When rogues like these (a sparrow cries)
To honours and employments rise,
I court no favor, as... JOHN GAY In other men we faults may spy,
And blame the mote that dims their eye;
Each little speck and ... JOHN GAY Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. JOHN GAY Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay, JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise. JOHN GAY Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one ano... JOHN GAY People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to... GAY TALESE The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. JOHN GAY Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. JOHN GAY There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I... ROSS GAY I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one ... TYSON GAY I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame. JOHN GAY That Raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak)
Bodes me no good. JOHN GAY I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to d... TYSON GAY The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-wa... GAY TALESE A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and... FRANCIS GAY Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night. JOHN GAY Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me. DAVID GAY All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd. JOHN GAY Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. JOHN GAY My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green,
Let Peggy wear. JOHN GAY Over the hills and far away. JOHN GAY To frame the little animal, provide
All the gay hues that wait on female pride:
Let Nature gui... JOHN GAY The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. JOHN GAY The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. JOHN GAY "I cannot raise my worth too high;
Of what vast consequence am I!"
"Not of the importance you ... JOHN GAY Of all the fools that pride can boast,
A Coxcomb claims distinction most. JOHN GAY No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. JOHN GAY An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. JOHN GAY Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet
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For who talks much must talk in vain. JOHN GAY Variety's the source of joy below,
From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,
In books ... JOHN GAY From wine what sudden friendship springs? JOHN GAY Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round,
And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?
... JOHN GAY Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,
Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;
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A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I r... JOHN GAY Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have
while working. JOHN GAY In every rank, or great or small,
'Tis industry supports us all. JOHN GAY I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame. JOHN GAY Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it. JOHN GAY "Is there no hope?" the sick man said,
The silent doctor shook his head,
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Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare.
Bl... JOHN GAY When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway
Directs the roving trout this fatal way,
He greedi... JOHN GAY