"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."
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"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot."
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"Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug."
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"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
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"For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.'"
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"I think that making love is the best form of exercise."
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"Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life."
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"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."
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"Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both."
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"We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic."
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"If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised."
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"I don't even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I'm the best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me."
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"Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie."
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"People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex - to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic"
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"I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get."
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"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
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"Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."
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"Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over."
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"I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad and naked bodies don't always have to be connected to sex."
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"Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex."
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