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"The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of Christ's birth, that's the problem. It's unbelievable to me. The ACLU will no longer fight for your right to put up a nativity scene, but they'll fight for the right of the local freak who wants to stumble onto the scene and have sex with one of the sheep."
"We know that drugs, sex and rock and roll stimulates something called dopamine in the brain. So do videogames. Dopamine is something that we crave."
"You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else."
"I never yell, I never tell, but I'm grateful as hell."
"A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV."
"Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food."
"One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing."
"Regarding sex education: no secrets!"
"It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction."
"Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad."
"Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing."
"I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't"
"It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos."
"If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words."
"Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system."
"Marijuana is like sex: If I don't do it every day I get a headache."
"Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex."
"I'm human viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex machine now. I'm raring to go every second of the day. My wife's loving it."
"I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death."
"Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility."
