Mark Simpson Quotes

#1. The world does not need a 'gay Elvis', for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant narcissism, was quite queer enough

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#2. Arguably, poor Oscar was merely an early failed and somewhat overweight prototype for Morrissey.

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#3. He-Man wins the day and thrusts his sword into the air, shouting, 'I HAVE THE POWER!!' as white lightning squirts out of its tip.

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#4. Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms. Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol

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#5. In the 21st century men's tits have not just rivalled but replaced women's as the touchstone of 'sexy' in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.

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#6. Every time men try to grasp something consolingly, sturdily, essentially masculine, it all too easily transforms into its opposite.

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#7. The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

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#8. Not permitted to desire another man's penis, the bodybuilder phallicizes that which he is permitted to desire: his own body.

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#9. Sex is the theory; porn is the practice.

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#10. Nearly thirty years on, despite Pejic's unpopularity with some feminists and the closet-cases who write for US FHM, 1980s Marilyn and his shameless, shining desire to be desired looks more like a glamorous prophet, preparing the way for the Metrosexy 21st Century.

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#11. There's a perverse and bitter joy in feeling unique, but you pay dearly. Morrissey

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#12. Bodybuilding has come to be seen as a means by which boys can turn desire into identification.

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#13. The huge veins on his neck throb with the exertion and rush of it all and his whole body flexes and pumps like one enormous, grotesque organ.

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#14. The more exaggerated the musculature, the more it had to explain and justify itself in mounds of dead bodies.

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#15. There's a famous quote which goes something like, 'You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be'. Maybe there's some truth to that. We like to think that society shapes us, but I don't think that that's the way it happens. Select, 1991

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#16. Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

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