“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/16/he-knew-he-was-right-2 note: Our Short National Nightmare note: The New Yorker note: In The New Yorker, October 16, 2006 note: 2000s, 2006

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British American author and journalist 1949–2011

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“I got to tell you, guys that have sex with each other's anal cavities -- how can we offend guys that actually have anal sex? Don't you think that might offend some of us who think that's despicable?”

Ted Nugent (1948) American rock musician

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“Anal sex is a lot like spinach: if you're forced to have it as a child, you won't enjoy it as an adult.”

Daniel Tosh (1975) American stand-up comedian

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“There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women…”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

“I rated the drug Demerol over sex as the ultimate pleasure at one time. Now I don’t have access to either.”

Oscar Levant book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac

The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)

“I’m not afraid. When you live as long as I’ve lived, you lose that, too. I never liked lobster in my life, and mainly because I’d never tried it. On my eightieth birthday I tried it. I can’t say I’m greatly excited over lobster still, but I have no doubt as to its taste now, and I don’t fear it. I dare say death will be a lobster, too, and I can come to terms with it.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

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“Gary and Melissa loved to make love, loved to make love, loved to make love to each other over and over and over again. For the first few weeks of their relationship, they made love four or five times a night. They were really turned on for a while. Then, to heighten their passion, they bought sex books: The Joy of Sex, The Sensuous Couple, The Joy of Sex Part Two, The Kama Sutra, Even Yet Still More Joy of Sex, Popular Mechanics, Betty Crocker, anything.”

John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer

"Gary & Melissa"
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“Booze, pot, too much sex, failure in one's private life, too much attrition, too much recognition, too little recognition. Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

As quoted in The Sunday Herald http://web.archive.org/web/20071112125539/http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1824217.0.norman_mailer_1923_2007.php [Scotland] (11 November 2007)

“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”

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