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Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not…
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All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability…
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I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of…
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Dear God, teach me to be careless.
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Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip,…
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If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
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Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of…
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England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
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Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
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And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.
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Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending,…
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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which…
— Steve Kangas
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I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has…
— Willie Morris
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I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I…
— Michel Houellebecq
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All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.
— Jesse Eisenberg
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What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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My pleasures disappeared with my vices.
— Hanif Kureishi
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Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and…
— Francis Scott Key
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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.
— Alison Goldfrapp
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My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
— Oscar Wilde
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