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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I told my girlfriend that a praying mantis female eats its mate after copulation. She didn't take the hint.
— Unknown Author
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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much…
— Epictetus
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Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that…
— Desmond Morris
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Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent…
— Archibald MacLeish
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In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.
— William Holden
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Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would…
— Alan Moore
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Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
— Walt Whitman
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Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
— Patrick O'Brian
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Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not…
— Milan Kundera
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Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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