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“Thats what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.”
“That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.”
“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writers most ancient task.”
“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.”
“All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.”
“The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.”
“Its something of a clich, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make you want to touch as much flesh as you can get your hands on.”
“He says that politics is a waste of time. Politics are? Politics is? Anyway, a waste of time. He says you should focus on your own sexual gratification.”
“Dont you wonder sometimes, Miranda asked, whether women have all the power or no power at all?”
“Christianity has always been the Gestapo of desire, since long, long before there was a Gestapo. Instead of Jews to hate, Christianity has desire. Though I guess Christianity has Jews, too. In any ...”
“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.”
“Once youve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether its a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when its not around. Or maybe its just me.”
“That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.”
“Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?”
“It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make you want to touch as much flesh as you can get your hands on.”
“Don’t you wonder sometimes,” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?”
“Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.”
