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"What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine."
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"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."

"Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way."

"I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy, those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar."

"How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind-impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian."

"Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright."Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps."

"She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important."

"Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality, he just never connected with you at the intersection."

"Ronan did not smoke, he preferred his habits with hangovers."
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"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

"I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn."

"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."

"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."

"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."

"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

"If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
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