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"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
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"Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous."
"Love never dies but the affection/passion you have for each other may fade over time when you don't personally connect with each other."
"There was nothing else in the entire universe, nothing but the two of them together. Her curves, his angles. Her light, his darkness. Her softness, his exquisitely aching hardness. Male. Female."
"Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me."
"Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present."
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
"The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give; unconsciously, if not consciously, they feel this and the resulting disappointment inclines them towards envy, oppression, and cruelty."
"Sex is not merely an entertainment, it is a courtesy and affability."
"Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?""I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father.""Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have."
"For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you I have no name."
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"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."
"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
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