Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 4: The Whale's Penis and the Woman with Three Occupations
“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”
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“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
Source: Margaret Ogilvy (1897), Ch. 8
Opening sentence, p. 1
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Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
Quoted in Christopher Goodwin, "Get real – ageing’s not all Helen Mirren" http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article1466183.ece, Times Online (UK) (4 March 2007)
All Sex, All the Time.
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