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For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the c...

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If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing...

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Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the...

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On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?”“Still the con...

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Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, ...

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Okay, you know, is it weird to get so depressed watching a children’s Christmas special— Oh, wait, I...

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David Foster WallaceBrief Interviews with Hideous Men

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely...

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Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to ...

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David SedarisDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

In his mind he saw them standing with the tips of their organs pressed together ejaculating into eac...

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But it wouldn’t have half the power of a story in which Jamie and Claire truly conquer real evil and...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

You don’t need to know the purpose as you write, but when you read over something you’ve written, yo...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Dialogue doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up o...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it’s better to use sensual deta...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Okay. This has to be a credible threat. Ergo, we have to have seen (and heard about) the real damage...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes.

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Watch a good movie sometime without reference to what’s happening but only with attention to how it ...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Don’t let characters talk pointlessly—they only talk if there’s something to say.

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without ...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Don’t go overboard in avoiding “said.” Basically, “said” is the default for dialogue, and a good thi...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

To some extent, emotions are universal and can be treated that way; no matter what the participants’...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

If you can’t look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it’s there—take it out or chang...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Just as an effective advertisement or page layout includes a lot of white space, a powerful scene re...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good.

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Men have external genitalia, while women have internal genitalia. This simple difference makes a lot...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

For a different woman, a different relationship, a different situation, gentleness might have been t...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

One of the general patterns of good (i.e., striking and memorable) writing is the effect of repetiti...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will ma...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Jamie’s viewpoint is expressed almost entirely in metaphor: If she was broken, she would slash him w...

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it.

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Diana Gabaldon"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in...

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Just the minute another person is drawn into some one's life, there begin to arise undreamed-of comp...

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E. B. WhiteIs Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do

I have seldom met an individual of literary tastes or propensities in whom the writing of love was n...

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E. B. WhiteIs Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do

mr youse needn't be so spryconcernin questions artyeach has his tastes but as for ii likes a certain...

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a pretty girl, who naked isis worth a million statues

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyon...

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Sex now seemed a strange thing to me, a social rite that registered, even brought about shifts in th...

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Edmund WhiteA Boy's Own Story

Guy believed everything in sex should be done slowly so as not to scare the wildlife and to ensure h...

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Edmund WhiteOur Young Man

He was taking Kevin’s cherry! The words made him harder and made him feel privileged, masterful, mar...

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Edmund WhiteOur Young Man

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer play...

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... what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a...

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Edward AlbeeThe American Dream & The Zoo Story

It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; inde...

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Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a mo...

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Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build o...

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My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.

In those years I did not care to enjoy sex, only to have it. That is what seeing Alex again on Fifth...

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Elizabeth HardwickSleepless Nights

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses y...

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Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.

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Erica JongHow to Save Your Own Life

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with th...

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Erica JongHow to Save Your Own Life

Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.

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Ernest HemingwayTo Have and Have Not

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...

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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

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Florence KingConfessions of a Failed Southern Lady

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

For what Luc was in fact proposing was just a game, an enticing game, but, even so, one that could d...

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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

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Frederick BuechnerWishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

I was worried about sex," he went on. "But you know what, Sulie? It's like being told I can't have a...

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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for proper...

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Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them w...

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Fulton J. SheenThree to Get Married

While a person does not give up on sex sex does not give up on the person.

The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: th...

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Nigromanta took him to her room, which was lighted with false candlesticks, to her folding cot with ...

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She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was i...

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The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during he...

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We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep wit...

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nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps perpetuate love

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is...

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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she w...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

Don’t let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love

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Gabriel García MárquezMemories of My Melancholy Whores

Josè Arcadio felt himself lifted up into the air toward a state of seraphic inspiration, where his h...

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Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them...

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Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Rememb...

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Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

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When I was young and had no senseIn far-off MandalayI lost my heart to a Burmese girlAs lovely as th...

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There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the f...

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Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a...

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When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for a...

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A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely withou...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with bla...

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For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,W...

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George OrwellKeep the Aspidistra Flying

At night all cats are grey.

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George OrwellKeep the Aspidistra Flying

I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at...

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A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.