"Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love."
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"Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time."
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"Make love when you can. It's good for you."
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"A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought."
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"She makes love just like a woman."
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"Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half."
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"She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman."
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"Skill makes love unending."
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"If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him."
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"The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty."
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"It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married."
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"It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation."
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"Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side."
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"I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door."
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"It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war."
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"There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself."
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"On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone."
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"The only question is how to make love stay."
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"I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love."
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"Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts."
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