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Armistead Maupin
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The Days of Anna Madrigal
It took so long to find you...and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it--I'm old-fashioned. I believe marriage is between a man and a man.
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Aberjhani
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Visions of a Skylark Dressed
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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Iain Pears
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The Dream of Scipio
{H}e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a woman dissolving into violence, desperately weakening everything he tried to do. For how could learning and poetry be defended when it produced such dreadful results and was advanced by such imperfect creatures? At least Julien did not see the desperate fate of the ruined lover as a nineteenth-century novelist or a poet might have done, recasting the tale to create some appealing romantic hero, dashed to pieces against the unyielding society that produced him. Rather, his initial opinion -- held almost to the last -- was of Olivier as a failure, ruined by a terible weakness.
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Jeanette Winterson
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Sexing the Cherry
1. Men are easy to please but are not pleased for long before some new novelty must delight them.2. Men are easy to make passionate but are unable to sustain it.3. Men are always seeking soft women but find their lives in ruins without strong women.4. Men must be occupied at all times otherwise they make mischief.5. Men deem themselves weighty and women light. Therefore it is simple to tie a stone round their necks and drown them should they become too troublesome.6. Men are best left in groups by themselves where they will entirely wear themselves out in drunkenness and competition. While this is taking place a woman may carry on with her own life unhindered.7. Men are never never to be trusted with what is closest to your heart, and if it is they who are closest to your heart, do not tell them.8. If a man asks you for money, do not give it to him.9. If you ask a man for money and he does not give it to you, sell his richest possession and leave at once.10. Your greatest strength is that every man believes he knows the sum and possibility of every woman.
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Jeanette Winterson
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The World and Other Places:
In the lives of saints I look for confirmation of excess. To them it is not strange to spend nights on a mountain or to forgo food. For them, the visionary and the everyday coincide. Above all, they have no domestic virtues, preferring intensity to comfort. Despite their inhospitable ways, they ferment with unexpected life, like those bleak railway cuttings that host horizontal dandelions. They know there is no passion without pain.
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Jeanette Winterson
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The Passion
She grew in secret, away from their eyes. Outwardly she was obedient and loving, but inside she was feeding a hunger-
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Jeanette Winterson
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The Passion
Somewhere between fear and sex. Somewhere between God and the devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back is worse.
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Jeanette Winterson
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The Passion
Somewhere between fear and sex. Somewhere between God and the devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back is worse. I'm surprised at myself talking in this way.
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Jeanette Winterson
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The Passion
I'm never tempted by God but I like his trappings. Not tempted but I begin to understand why others are. With this feeling inside, with this wild love that threatens, what safe places might there be? Where do you store gunpowder? How do you sleep at night again? If I were a little different I might turn passion into something holy and then I would sleep again.
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Jeanette Winterson
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Sexing the Cherry
On the one side there were those who claimed that love, if it be allowed bat all, must be kept tame by marriage vows and family ties so that its fiery heat warms the hearth but does not burn down the house.On the other there were those who believed that only passion freed the soul from its mud-hut, and that only by loosing the heart like a coursing hare and following it until sundown could a man or woman sleep quietly at night."
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Jeanette Winterson
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The Passion
Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun.
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Jeanette Winterson
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The Passion
Passion out of passion's obstacles.
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