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Malcolm Bradbury
: It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.
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Edmund White :
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I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.
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Karl Kraus :
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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Susan Sontag :
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Madonna :
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Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
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Victoria Billings :
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Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.
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Roger Scruton :
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The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.
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Michael Stipe :
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I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
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Derek Jarman :
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Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
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Thomas Troward :
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Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
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John Updike :
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In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.
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Malcolm Bradbury:
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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Malcolm Bradbury:
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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Malcolm Bradbury:
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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Malcolm Bradbury:
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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
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Malcolm Bradbury:
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To you liberals, of course, goats are just sheep from broken homes.
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Malcolm Bradbury:
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In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.
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Malcolm Bradbury:
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The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
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Malcolm Bradbury:
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Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.
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Malcolm Bradbury:
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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