Quote of the Day – May 8 2016
“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”
Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
Image from Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut
Quote of the Day – May 7 2016
“The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. ”
Audre Lorde
Quote of the Day – May 6 2016
“Sex was like a world so mysterious to me, I really couldn’t believe there was this fantastic texture to life that I was getting to do…it has all these different levels, from lust and fearful, violent sex to the real spiritual thing at the other end. It´s the key to some fantastic mystery of life.”
David […]
Quote of the Day – May 5 2016
“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”
Katherine Mansfield
Quote of the Day – May 4 2016
“No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all of this bloody retribution, it’s hard to see how monogamy comes “naturally” to our species.”
Christopher Ryan
Quote of the Day – May 2 2016
“Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes.”
Kate Millet
Quote of the Day – May 1 2016
“All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.”
Marya Mannes
Quote of the Day – April 30 2016
“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”
Havelock Ellis
Quote of the Day – April 29 2016
“Sex is the great amateur art.”
David Cort
Quote of the Day – April 28 2016
“You don’t make art out of good intentions.”
Gustave Flaubert
