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“Did one learn or was one shaped?”
“Im talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.”
“I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.”
“I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.”
“The past is the past. Its the present we should worry about.”
“Class, she reminded herself, was the real marker in America.”
“Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?”
“Soon would come the night in which there was no more work not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.”
“Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.”
“Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?”
“Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.”
“Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.”
“The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.”
“Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.”
“But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we werent around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.”
“It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.”
“Ill put it to you simply: love is the enemy. Thats my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells and never venture out ...”
“All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.”
“When you get right down to it, we dont ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where theres mystery, theres hope.”
“To speak a language that was as intimate and free as certain dreams, saying darkly, thrillingly, My cock inside of you. Your come in my mouth ... He focused on the boys slim, tight hips; with the t...”
“As long as we do violence to other animals, well keep on doing violence to ourselves.”
