“I will be with you and there is nothing in heaven, or hell, that can keep me away. - Michael”
“Sunrise, sunset, changes right before my eyes, but your vision stays forever in my heart”
“He’s always been attracted to broken things. He was the kind of boy who talked the bad girls through their problems, who defended them and didn’t take advantage. He was sensitive to his stuffed animals’ feelings, rotating their position on his bed so that a new plush animal would occupy pride of place at his pillowside every night. Soon I became first and foremost on that pillow; princess of the island of misfit toys.”
“The secret to living fully is to find your passion and pursue it.”
“I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.”
“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”
“… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”
“E la possibilità, non la garanzia, quella che mi fa andare avanti. Una specie di scomessa da parte mia. E chiamatemi pure pazzo, o sognatore o quel che vi pare, io credo che tutto sia possibile.”
“She: So where do we go from here? He: Nowhere! She: What do you mean? He: You go your way and I go mine! She: Can we have a future together? He: I don t settle down! I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!”
“Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off as you ve always dreamed, yet you don t have the first notion of how to make it start, much less how to make it move.”
“HE LOOKS AT ME AND TELLS ME IM AGGRESSIVE, HE S OBSERVING ME. -CRUSH”
“Jejak-jejak yang tertinggal hanya sementara Menyisakan tanya diatas sebuah lara Hari ini kita pergi untuk menghapus rasa Namun yang hilang juga adalah kata,.”
“all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.”
“Upon their meeting in New York in 1958: “We didn’t want to live together. We didn’t have any examples of what a good love relationship between two men could be. And there was always the problem of hiding so no one would know we were gay. There was no question that if I were known to be gay, living with another man, it would make it more difficult for me to get work as an actor.” - Alan Shayne, co-author, Double Life”
“As an artist in the 1960s, Norman Sunshine was able to maintain a moderately out lifestyle. But when the first exhibition of his paintings in New York brought on a profile in The New York Times in 1968, he was photographed in the apartment that he admitted sharing with Shayne. At both his advertising agency and Shayne’s television production company, the article was met with absolute silence.”
“In the 1970s, when Norman Sunshine won an Emmy for the graphics and title design he had created for one of Alan Shayne’s television productions, “Alan and I agreed it was not a good idea for us to be seen together at an industry event,” he remembers. “Alan, after all, was one of the very few homosexuals who had such a powerful, high profile job, and who lived openly with a man. Homophobia had its adherents and some ruthless climber up the executive ladder would certainly love an opportunity to use it… Better to be seen with a woman,’ we were advised by a very trusted friend, ‘Makes everyone more comfortable.”
“About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending.” - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life”