“...as if, one lover gone, I was opening up for an immediate replacement. Smack habit, love habit - what's the difference? They can both kill you. For the bus journey I fell in love with a woman who smiled at me. The motion of the bus made her thick mop of fair curls tremble. We talked about desperados. 'I am fatally attracted to them', I said. 'In fact, I probably am one'.”
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“Most great men are turned off by women who fail to see their greatness.”
“Her eyes are planets whose subjects aren’t subject to the laws of gravity.”
“Her body is a philosophical novel that proves the existence of extraterrestrial life forms.”
“A man has to be pulled and kept by the sensual aura of your being.”
“Sometimes it takes a lot of Joe to find the Joe who’s right.”