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"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
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"How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain the high level of passion that exists between criminals and those who seek to bring them to justice. It's no wonder the Zodiac Killer flirted so relentlessly with the police. Or that Jack the Ripper courted and baited detectives with his - or her - coy letters. We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired."
"I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did."
"Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society's disapproval."
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"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."
"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."
"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
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