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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Muggeridge, Malcolm. Tread Softly, for You Tread on My Jokes. Collins, 1966.

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Fairlie, Henry. "Lust or Luxuria." The Seven Deadly Sins Today. New Republic Books, 1978.

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Bull Durham. Directed by Ron Shelton, The Mount Company, 1988.

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"The Blood." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Dan O'Keefe, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 9, episode 4, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1997.

What hath night to do with sleep?

John Milton

Comus

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Milton, John. "A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle." 29 Sept. 1634, Ludlow Castle, Ludlow, England, UK, line 122.

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Milton, John. "A Masque...Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, line 122.

King Solomon loved many strange women.

1st Kings 11:1

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Kings 11:1).

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Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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Grumpy Old Men. Directed by Donald Petrie. Warner Bros., 1993.

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Little Miss Sunshine. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Big Beach Films/Bona Fide Productions/Third Gear Productions, 2006.

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Gauguin, Paul. Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, translated by Van Wyck Brooks. Indiana University Press, 1958, p. 18.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 2. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

Alfred Kinsey

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Kinsey, Alfred. "Essay: The Homosexual in America." Time Magazine, 21 Jan. 1966.

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life.

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

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De Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris. Celestine. 1784.

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

Malcolm Lowry

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Lowry, Malcolm. Under the Volcano. Reynal & Hitchcock/Jonathan Cape, 1947, ch. 12.

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Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

The summer hath his joys,
And winter has delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.

Thomas Campion

Third Book of Ayres

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Campion, Thomas. The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres. London, 1617, bk. 3.

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Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, ch. 1.

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Defendant." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009. Originally published by R. Brinley Johnson, 1901, introduction.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Stated to his son, Philip Stanhope. c. 1773.

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Oldenburg, Claes and Germano Celant. Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology. Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1995, p. 13.