Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.”
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Scottish writer 1918–2006Related quotes
"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Context: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
“Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Letter sent to Adolf Hitler praising his firm action against the Sturm Abteilung on the Night of the Long Knives (12 July 1934). Quoted in "Nazi conspiracy and aggression" - Page 940 - 1946.
1940s
as remembered by William S. Burroughs, in: Ted Morgan, Literary Outlaw. The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs. London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012, p. 61.
“I am yours. If you feed me garbage,
I will sing a song of garbage.
This is a hymn.”
"Pig Song" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21982
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)