"Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction"

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Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.25, Profile Books

Dashiell Hammett

#Real Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“I think there is a core of Trump supporters who, as he said during the campaign, he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue. They are not rattled by anything they have seen. They're sticking with him, so they're happy to sort of see him back out there being Trump.”
“The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.”

Source : Sauce (1977) "Daddie's Sauce"
“Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.”
“I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?”

Source : "Extreme Pornography Law in the UK". Personal Website, stallman.org. February 19, 2010.
“Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.”
“In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”
“We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.”
“It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.”

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