Robert Patrick citations

„Ciel! pense à tous ces grands hommes qui m'ont grignoté, et là je ne suis devenu qu'un hors d'œuvre pour un virus — une chose qui ne peut même pas se décider si elle est un animal ou une plante.“

Must one go through the five official stages? What are those five stages again: "anger, denial, bargaining, depression, and acceptance." Well, back up: here comes my acceptance speech. "I am now, and I have always been a flaming faggot, responsible for style in its every manifestation. I have my own five steps: flippancy, sentimentality, sarcasm, camp, and smut. They've got me through life, and deity dammit, they'll get me through death!"
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„Pas la peine de répliquer; quoi qu'on me dise en ce moment pourrait tout aussi bien être écrit sur une courge en décomposition. Le cerveau s'en va en premier, tu sais — sauf les parties dédiées à la douleur, qui sont de toute évidence invincibles.“

God, think of the great men that have nibbled on me, and now I'm nothing but a snack for a virus - something that can't even decide if it's an animal or a plant.
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„Bob : Les gens sont venus ici [en Amérique] pour la liberté religieuse — et nous avons adoré ces jeunes.“

Don't bother to answer back. Anything said to me at this point might as well be written on a decomposing squash. The brain goes first, you know -- except the portions dedicated to pain, which are apparently immune.
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„Oui, tu as raison, tu as toujours raison. L'amour survivra. On n'a pas pu le tuer avec des coiffures mauves, on ne le tuera pas avec une peste. Les garçons tomberont en amour avec leurs lobes d'oreille si c'est tout ce qui reste. Parce que l'important n'était jamais vraiment le sexe, n'est-ce pas, c'était l'amour.“

Bob : People came here for religious freedom, and we worshipped those boys.
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„Pour les hommes comme nous, il faut être un peu plus fort, plus critique envers nous-mêmes, plus observant que les autres. Que nous sommes déjà rehaussés de ces qualités, comme le prétendent certains, ou nous en sommes dotés par notre situation, nous avons traditionnellement - et nous avons effectivement une longue et fière tradition - été un peu plus fins, un peu plus fermes, un peu plus sensibles et flexibles que les autres […] L'armure la plus facile à revêtir est toujours la cruauté. Elle vous aidera en tout. Une condescension vicieuse envers ceux sans votre force peut vous faire sentir supérieur pour un moment. Mais il faut rejeter cette armure facile. […] Jamais, Ralph, jamais pour un instant ne permettez-vous de sentir autre chose que la pitié et la sympathie profonde pour les camarades malheureux qui, effectivement, ont tombé dans la même bataille.“

You're right, you're always right, yes, yes, of course. Love will survive. They couldn't kill it with purple hair-do's, they can't kill it with a plague. Boys will fall in love with each other's earlobes if all else should fail. Because it never really was about sex, was it? It was about love.
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„J'ai essayé de compenser en me proposant comme sujet pour des quelconques tours rigolos que la science voudrait bien essayer. Et le docteur m'a dit, « M. Wood, on ne peut pas vous utiliser comme animal expérimental. » J'ai dit, « Docteur, je suis une tapette efféminée, on m'a toujours utilisé comme ça! »“

For people like us it is necessary to be a bit stronger, more self-critical, more observant than the usual run. Whether we happen to come already enhanced with these qualities, as some have claimed, or whether our situation invests them in us, we have traditionally - and we do have a long and proud tradition - been a little finer, a little firmer, more sensitive and flexible than others […] The easiest armor to put on is always cruelty. That armor will, indeed, see you through everything. Vicious condescension toward those without your strength can make you feel momentarily superior. But that easy armor must be forgone. […] Never, Ralph, never for an instant permit yourself to feel anything other than pity and deepest sympathy for unfortunate comrades who have, after all, fallen in the same battle.
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„Je veux tous les donner [mes disques] avant qu'un con joue du disco à mes funérailles, et le disque se met à sauter, et personne ne se rend compte, et la cérémonie dure pour l'éternité!“

I tried to make up by offering to be a subject for any cute tricks that science might want to try. And [the doctor] said, "Mr. Wood, we cannot use you as an experimental animal," and I told him, "Doc, I’m an effeminate queer, I’ve never been used as anything else!"
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„Bien, si tu as besoin de faire quelque chose, écris-moi une pièce de théâtre comique sur le sida. … Mais oui tu peux! La plus grande blague sur nous depuis l'invention même du sexe, et avec un gag encore plus long.“

I want to give it all away before some fool plays disco at my funeral, and then the record gets stuck, and nobody can tell, and the service goes on forever!
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„Doc, I’m an effeminate queer, I’ve never been used as anything else!“

If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„For people like us it is necessary to be a bit stronger, more self-critical, more observant than the usual run. Whether we happen to come already enhanced with these qualities, as some have claimed, or whether our situation invests them in us, we have traditionally - and we do have a long and proud tradition - been a little finer, a little firmer, more sensitive and flexible than others… There will be times when only your own spine can support you, moments when only your own wit can inspire you, days when nothing but exacting self-control can raise you from bed, nights when nothing but your word can impel you into society. But of all these disciplines, there is nothing you must hold to more sternly than to be kind and sympathetic. The easiest armor to put on is always cruelty. That armor will, indeed, see you through everything. Vicious condescension toward those without your strength can make you feel momentarily superior. But that easy armor must be forgone. Don't ever curdle that creamy brow with lines of easy disdain, or curl those lips with a popular sneer. Of all the models available, the one of gentleman in our late war is most succinct: Face what you have to face with humor, dignity, and style; protect yourself with knightly grace; have contempt for your own weakness and never encourage it in others; but never, Ralph, never for an instant permit yourself to feel anything other than pity and deepest sympathy for unfortunate comrades who have, after all, fallen in the same battle.“

"Pouf Positive"
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)
Contexte: I tried to make up by offering to be a subject for any cute tricks that science might want to try. And [the doctor] said, "Mr. Wood, we cannot use you as an experimental animal," and I tod him, "Doc, I’m an effeminate queer, I’ve never been used as anything else!"

„I want to give [my records] all away before some fool plays disco at my funeral, and then the record gets stuck, and nobody can tell, and the service goes on forever!“

One of Those People
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

„When I was just a little girl in East Bay, California, I noticed that East Bay was pig Latin for “beast.” But I knew I had found my niche when I realized that Alice Faye was pig Latin for "phallus."“

"Pouf Positive"
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)