"I am not promiscous, you know. Promiscuity implies that attraction is not necessary"
-Tallulah Bankhead-quoted in Miss Tallulah Bankhead, by Lee Israel.
"Lust is more abstract than logic; it seeks(hope triumphing over experience)for some purely sexual, hence purely imaginary, conjuction of an impossible femaleness"
-C.S.Lewis-The Allegory of Love.
"It is better to be silent than to say things at the wrong time that are too tender; what was appropriate ten seconds ago is so no longer, and hurts one's cause, rather than helps it"
-Stendhal-The Compleat Lover, edited by William Geoffrey.
"A maid that laughs is half taken"
-English Proverb.
"Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting. In the climax of the sexual act, moreover, we foget ourselves; that is commonly felt to be one of its recommendations. Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporay novels is an avowal of the absence of character"
-Mary McCarthy-On The Contrary.
"Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare brnaches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimsless but surging...I suppose it's lust but it's awful and holy like the thunderand lightning and the wind".
-Joanna Field-A life of One's Own.
"Do not wonder at the man who runs after a heartless coquette, but keep your wonder for ther man who does not".
-Georg Groddeck-The Book of the IT.
"Making love is one demosntration of how space relations ask us to surrender in love, and absorb the differences and imperfections and beauties of other human beings".
-Thaddeus Golan-The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment.
"Orgasm is the most obvious lie yet devised to thwart man. It can so thoroughly convince him of something which is unreal when he believes that the power of his excitement lies somewhere other than in his own physical apparatus".
-William Talsman-The Gaudy Image.
"In fact, eroticism often arrives as a late guest at its own banquet. A high degree of affection or rapport between two people, especially if they see each other across an otherwise unbridgeable barrier of age or status, can easily generate sexual feelings".
-C.A.Tripp-The Homosexual Matrix.
"The Big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less".
-Brendan Francis.
"Sex as an institution, sex as a general notion, sex as a problem,sex as a platitude--all this is something I find too tedious for words.Let us skip sex".
-Vladimir Nabokov-Strong Opinions.
