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Thom Gunn

"I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse."

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Akshay Vasu

"Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed."

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Akshay Vasu

"When it comes to sex, no pairing is beyond belief."

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Akshay Vasu

"Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question."

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Akshay Vasu

"No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such."

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Akshay Vasu

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

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Akshay Vasu

"The most unfair thing about sex is that men are almost always guaranteed an orgasm."

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Akshay Vasu

"Sex drives the world and sex in on every human mind, be it a prophet or be it a saint, history has full of evidences."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."

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Akshay Vasu

"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."

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Akshay Vasu

"Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be."

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Thom Gunn
"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."

Childhood

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Thom Gunn
"There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply."

Poetry

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Thom Gunn
"I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early."

Friendship

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Thom Gunn
"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."

Fact

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Thom Gunn
"I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up."

Writing

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Thom Gunn
"I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using."

Writing

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Thom Gunn
"I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home."

Home

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Thom Gunn
"We control the content of our dreams."

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Thom Gunn
"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."

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Thom Gunn
"I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about."

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