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I was able to compare the sexual equipment of the various men I made love with and there were amazing differences, in both length and massiveness. One handsome married man, who used to arrive with two Danishes from a very good bakery, had a penis about the size and shape of a lead pencil; he shall remain nameless. In my experience there was usually a relation to height, as Philip Rahv and Bill Mangold, both tall men, bore out. There may be dwarfish men with monstrously large organs, but I have never known one. It was not until later, after my second divorce, that I met an impotent man or a pervert (two of the latter). None of my partners, the reader will be relieved to hear, had a venereal disease.

Intellectual Memoirs - 1992.

Love, Men, Sex

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To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

New York Times - 1984.

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Of all the men I slept with in my studio-bed on Gay Street - and there were a lot: I stopped counting - I liked Bill Mangold the best. Until I began to see Philip Rahv.

Intellectual Memoirs - 1992.

Men

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When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.

How I Grew - 1987.

Power

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We all know in our gut that art educates. In other societies, they're aware of the power it has of speaking directly to the masses, teaching them to be better socialists, better citizens. The trouble is that with us it's fallen into the wrong hands. Forget the speculators. The concept of the collector is so rotten by now that it stinks.

Cannibals and Missionaries - 1979.

Art, Power

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It was getting rather alarming. I realised one day that in twenty four hours I had slept with three different men. And one morning I was in bed with somebody while over his head I talked on the telephone with somebody else...I did not feel promiscuous. Maybe no-one does. And maybe more girls sleep with more men than you would ever think to look at them.

Intellectual Memoirs - 1992.

Men

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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue - 1950.

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In violence, we forget who we are.

"Characters in Fiction," Partisan Review - 1961.

Fear

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If someone tells you he is going to make 'a realistic decision,' you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.

American Realist Playwrights - 1961

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You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.

The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt - 1943.

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