Quote by James Baldwin
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare o

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. – James Baldwin

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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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Charity
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

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Belief
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You know, its not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. – James Baldwin

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Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? – Murray Banks

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Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? – Richard Fleischer

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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. – D.H. Lawrence

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Sex

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. – David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down, 1965

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Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. – Benjamin Franklin

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All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didnt need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. – Paul Auster

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