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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. – James Baldwin

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When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin

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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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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. – Georges Bataille

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It is not sex that gives the pleasure but the lover. – Marge Piercy

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Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions. – Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1936

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I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing – especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age. – Samantha Morton

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