“Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.” PeopleKnowsWorldLoveKindStillsRealCertainSexImaginationLossWalksCuttingMagicCoupleBenefitsStandingLeavingBlowSelfishnessChairsLeapInfatuationClownTremblingPropsMansionsSwampsStanding There Author:Toni Morrison
“I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.” YearsHas BeensPlayDreamFilmSexCuttingSceneShapesHollywoodWork OutSomedayStaying Author:William H. Macy
“that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!” FactsBodySpiritSexMemoriesCuttingLonelinessSupremeRemedyCommunionPatheticEphemeralShort Cuts Book:No Signposts in the Sea Source: No Signposts in the Sea
“Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.” SexFantasyCuttingFeminismObjectsFemaleVictimMalesContemporaryDominantOppressorsParanoidSpun Author:Camille Paglia
“Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.” MayBeautifulSexCuttingMarkEdgesUglyDisappearInvisibleTouchedKnivesBluntBruisesSomething Beautiful Book:A life on film Source: A life on film
“What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts.” SaidSexCuttingTaxesWestTax CutsMae Author:Grover Norquist
“I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.” IfsTryingMadeI CanHardFoundSexCuttingHard WorkAngryBusyMade ItToo BusyCan't ChangeShort Cuts Author:Ruba Nadda
“You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.” PeopleIfsWayTryingYearsFirstsImportantHelpingAgeSexRealizingLosesCuttingMiddleBalanceIllusionDiscoveryTwentiesMaturityKnockingShort Cuts Author:Kingsley Amis
“The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the environment; Dole said that if there was just some way this could interfere with people's sex lives, it would be perfect legislation.” PeopleIfsWaySaidWould BeHouseSexHurtLinesPerfectCompanyEnvironmentCuttingTaxesIncreaseOilPocketsInterfereLegislationDeficitTax CutsGasolineOil Companies Author:Bill Maher