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"Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody."
"There is no sex without a cue. People who date have their cues at home, before they meet. You think about where to go, what to eat, what to do and say. Sometimes the cue is short - - just before we reach the bar - - but sex is never just spontaneous. Spontaneity is a myth."
"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."
"Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex."
"When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything."
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
"Sex is the biggest nothing of all time."
"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."
"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."
"I can't understand why more people aren't bisexual. It would double your chances for a date on Saturday night."
"Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!"
"Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it."
"I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!"
"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
"I like a man what takes his time."
"I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever."
"Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them."
"Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear."
"Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out."
"It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all."
