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Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.
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You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex — that's quite a thought, isn't it?
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Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
June 21, 1912
Died:
October 25, 1989
(aged 77)
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