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> [“Sex, my darling, is often the least important part of a passion. You'll learn that when you get older. - Maria Luisa (Tushi) Strauss”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/sex-my-darling-is-often-the-least-important-part-of-a-passion-you-ll/)

[David Leavitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-leavitt/)

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## More by David Leavitt

> [The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/the-term-paper-artist-represents-two-models-of-writing-one-of-the/)

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> [I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/i-could-hear-the-knock-and-whistle-of-the-water-pipes-the-purr-of-the/)

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> [Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/childhood-smells-of-perfume-and-brownies/)

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> [“Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/hope-had-stolen-into-his-life-just-as-he-was-growing-comfortable-with/)

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> [It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/it-was-an-instinct-to-put-the-world-in-order-that-powered-her-mending/)

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> [In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/in-a-memoir-i-think-the-contract-implies-a-certain-degree-of-truth-i/)

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> [Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/obviously-any-fiction-is-going-to-be-a-combination-of-what-is/)

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> [“Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/cautiously-his-foot-explored-wiggled-as-it-could-and-finally-felt/)

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> [It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/it-is-so-common-to-write-autobiographical-fiction-in-which-your-own/)

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> [“Sometimes I think you are doomed to happiness”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/sometimes-i-think-you-are-doomed-to-happiness/)

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> [“She looked toward the window, smiling away her life”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/she-looked-toward-the-window-smiling-away-her-life/)

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> [We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/we-all-spend-so-much-time-worrying-about-the-future-that-the-present/)

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> [“Sex, my darling, is often the least important part of a passion. You'll learn that when you get older. - Maria Luisa (Tushi) Strauss”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/sex-my-darling-is-often-the-least-important-part-of-a-passion-you-ll/)

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> [When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/when-one-writer-tries-to-silence-another-he-silences-every-writer-and/)

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> [You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-leavitt/you-are-not-supposed-to-get-it-it-s-a-paradox-all-of-mathematics-is/)

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