"He had relieved ***** beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's glove. He'd committed salacious acts beyond number. He'd never before felt so depraved as he did now, as the last pearl came free and he drew the soft kid down, baring her wrist, and his dark fingers grazed the delicate skin he'd exposed."

-- Loretta Chase

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“I'm an everything Baltimore fan.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.”
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.”
“The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.”
“It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
“Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.158, Vintage
“The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.”
“What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.”

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