"How would that premise stand up if he……" — Ernest Hemingway

"How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski."

— Ernest Hemingway

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if… — Saint Augustine
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. — Edmund Burke
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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do… — Jimmy Carter
Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. — Nora Roberts
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Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other… — Dan Savage
The first breathe of adultery is the freest. — John Updike
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