“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table. There’s nothing wrong with them, but it’s hard to stop thinking about it.

Garrison Keillor

“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”

Audrey Hepburn

“For God’s sake, let’s take the word ‘possess’ and put a brick round its neck and drown it … We can’t possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.”

Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon

“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”

Robert Bresson

“I’ve never read anything so badly written that got published. It made Twilight look like War and Peace.”

Salman Rushdie on ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

Had to add this after my previous post. And, yes I did read (or scan, more accurately) Fifty Shades. It took 20 mins on a train… was all it deserved.

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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

In all our relationships with property, with people, and with ideas there is conflict, pain, struggle, misery; but in this one act there is complete cessation of all that. Naturally you want more of it because it gives you happiness, while all the rest leads you to misery, turmoil, conflict, confusion, antagonism, worry, destruction; therefore, […]

“Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.”

George Bernard Shaw