Quotes about sex
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“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Heart of the Sea

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“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Chasing Fire

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“Money, power, sex… and elephants.”

Source: Memory

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“Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Also found http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22love+is+the+answer%22#search_anchor in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

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“Everybody lies about sex.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

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“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

As quoted without citation in Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology And Evolution (2006) by Peter J. Mayhew, p. 24
Attributed

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“The best sex takes place in the mind first”

Source: How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

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“Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alan-moore-the-reluctant-hero-64407.html

“If sex were food, Rhage would haven been morbidly obese.”

Variant: If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.
Source: Dark Lover

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“Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
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“Love is not necessary for sex.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Dragon Blood

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“Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

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

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

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

“Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

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“Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
-Calvin”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

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“… some of the best sex I can barely remember.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host
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“It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. xvii.
Context: Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:

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“What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation?”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

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“if the sex was too easy to get,
it was not that great.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

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“rain is acid…
sex is death….”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
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“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

Source: Haunted (2005)

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Bryan Lee O'Malley photo

“We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

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“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 21, p. 465

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“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).

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“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
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Woody Allen photo

“Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Source: Standup Comic

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“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.”

Jonathan Haidt (1963) American psychologist

TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html (March 2008).

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“Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

As quoted in Sex from Plato to Paglia : A Philosophical Encyclopedia (2006) by Alan Soble, Volume 2, p. 378, ISBN 9780313334252

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“Sex without love is an empty experience. But as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Love and Death (1975)

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