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"Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness " dangerous, beautiful darkness."

"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."

"I want to drink from you're life force."

"They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!"

"I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence."

"Success is like the most beautiful woman: pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few, courted by the patient and hardworking, and won over by good judgment."

"Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do."

"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?"

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"A man of pleasure is a man of pains."

"The house of laughter makes a house of woe."

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"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."

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