"Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food."

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Source : Mark Forsyth (2012). “Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle”, p.46, Icon Books Ltd

Mark Forsyth

#Sex Quotes #Said Quotes

“I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the ***** needle sticking out of my arm.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.”
“The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.”
“Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.”
“Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.”

Source : “What I've Learned: Bob Barker” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2007.
“I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“I am no stranger to loud music. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.”
“Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.”

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