
“If you’re going to go after the household help, get a ‘Yes’ first.”
Bill Maher
more infosource: Hardball with Chris Matthews, May 17, 2011.
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category: politics, power, primitive, sex
medium: Cable news
“I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they still work. The women, though, they’re all ‘crazy.’ I have a suspicion — and hear me out, because this is a rough one — that the definition of ‘crazy’ in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”
Tina Fey
more infosource: “Confessions of a Juggler,” The New Yorker, February 14 & 21, 2011, 65.
category: comedy, sex, sexism, show business
medium: personal essay
“Before marriage I was wildly interested in sex, but since joining up with my old goat, it has taken its proper position in my life.”
Julia Child
more infosource: October 28, 1953 letter to Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 142.
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“Birth, and copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death.
I’ve been born, and once is enough.”
T. S. Eliot
more infosource: “Fragment of the Agon,” Sweeney Agonistes in The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1952), 80–81.
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category: birth, brass tacks, death, life, sex
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via: my mom (Beverly Bader)“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”
Kurt Vonnegut
more infosource: A Man Without a Country (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005), 17.
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category: literature, novel, sex, technology, Victorian
medium: nonfiction
“Abstractly cheering thought: the millions of people around the world who will tonight sleep together for the first time.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 2:22 PM Jan 27, 2010 via web
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category: love, optimism, romance, sex, world
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“She refused to sleep in the same bed with a dead love, the skeleton of a passion.”
Anaïs Nin
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