“She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.”
Source: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 300
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“When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
Claudine and Annie (1903)
A lecture at the New England Conservatory in 1993, quoted on http://www.therestisnoise.com/2006/06/ligeti.html

“Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 7, “Nightmare Beach” (p. 144)

“If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have asked.”
Jace to Clary, pg. 187
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 2, pg. 49.
(Buch I) (1867)

Source: Attributed, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso tr. Paul Williams 2004, p.27

“Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.”
Source: A Child Called "It"

Jeff Koons in: Graeme Green. " 60 SECONDS: Jeff Koons http://metro.co.uk/2007/07/18/60-seconds-jeff-koons-532798/#ixzz3bThr2XKI," at metro.co.uk, 2007/07/18
1990s and later

“Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.”
On contact lenses
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