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Quote by Dashiell Hammett

“You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.”

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Dashiell Hammett was an American author renowned for his hard-boiled detective novels. His works are characterized by complex plots and deep psychological descriptions, profoundly influencing the genre of detective fiction. more

“I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.”

Writing Years Self Body Able Fall My Own Poet Materials Return Falling In Love Details Sensual Alienation Try Again Raw Materials Another Woman Living Fully Details Of Life

Author:Minnie Bruce Pratt

“A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.”

Writing Political Culture Secret Movement Gay Feminist Surface Spheres Grain Notebook Political Movements Secret Places

Author:Cherrie Moraga

“It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.”

Persons Sex Expression Gender Odds Homosexual Defining Insufficient

Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.”

Years Culture Feminism Years Ago Starting Glad Mainstream Mainstream Culture

Author:Alison Bechdel

“I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.”

Believe Kind Book Hate Sex I Hate

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.”

World Children Week Streets Months Adults Letters Ducks Crossings Crossing The Street

Author:Robert McCloskey

“The secret ingredient to sex is love.”

Sex Secret Ingredients

Author:Lars von Trier

“It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.”

Sex

Author:Margery Allingham

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