Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so del… - John Waters

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Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.

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About John Waters

John Samuel Waters, Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. He is recognizable by his pencil-thin mustache.

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Birth Name: John Samuel Waters Jr.
Alternative Names: John Samuel Waters John Samuel, Jr. Waters the Pope of Trash Pope of Trash the Duke of Dirty Duke of Dirty
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