A man's sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to an animal which is pretending not to be an animal that it is an animal. Kingsley Amis
Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence – either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous ‘embarkation’ and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of...
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Aldous Huxley
If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.
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Haruki Murakami
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
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Dashiell Hammett
I really think that writing about sex is writing about the mind.
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Jane DeLynn
He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
More Quotes By Kingsley Amis
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law...
Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'" Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you–free.
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
