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«If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
corrupted, corruptibility, dealing, fiction writer, in a sense, mainly, Sex and, Shakespeare, themes, tremendous
«Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
An Age, City of London, demography, dickens, feminine, Odessa, Paris, Rome, Sex and, teenager, twenties, urchin
«Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.»
Author: Rene Konig
| About:
Fashion,
Sex
| Keywords:
ambivalent, critical, irresistible, mixture, Sex and, taboo, taboos, The Social, urges
«Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.»
«Basically I am interested in friendship, sex, and death»
«A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.»
Author: Betty Friedan
| Keywords:
advance, compete, copying, handicapped, handicaps, pattern, professions, Refusing, Sex and, slavishly
«If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.»
Author: Erica Jong
| Keywords:
activities, creativity, dictators, insight, lead, revolutionaries, revolutionary, Sex and, subversive, The Dictators, The Knowledge, voice
«If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
acute, a good deal, egotism, explanation, Freud, good deal, observer, Sex and
«A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Marriage,
Men
| Keywords:
bothered, marries, Sex and
«Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Death and dying,
Sex
| Keywords:
easily, fun, lying, make fun, No Fun, Sex and
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