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Queer little twists and quirks go into the making of an individual. To suppress them all and follow clock and calendar and creed until the
individual is lost in the neutral gray of the host is to be less than true to our inheritance. Life, that gorgeous quality of life, is not accomplished
by following another man’s rules. It is true we have the same hungers and same thirsts, but they are for different things and in different ways and
in different seasons. Lay down your own day, follow it to its noon, your own noon, or you will sit in an outer hall listening to the chimes but
never reaching high enough to strike your own
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