“There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.”

"The Homosexual Villain"; this has also been widely misquoted as: "There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality."
Advertisements for Myself (1959)

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American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m… 1923–2007

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