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Norman Mailer

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There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
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"The Homosexual Villain"
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This has also been misquoted as: "There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality."

 
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