“I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar.”

Introduction of "" (1977) in Shatterday (1990)
Context: I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.

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American writer 1934–2018

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