K. M. Soehnlein Quotes

The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.

K. M. Soehnlein

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  

  Gail Collins
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• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
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• I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

  

  Carla Gallo
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• Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Fiction
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• I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
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• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • You
  • Sex
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• I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Law
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• I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
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• I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

  

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  • Challenge
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• Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Fiction

• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Fiction
  • Only
  • Nonfiction

• Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • School
  • Age
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• I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
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  • Sex
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• That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

  

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• I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.

  

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  • Live
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• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  

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  • World
  • Truth
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• Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

  

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• Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

  

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• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

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  • Money
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• The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Sex
  • Stories
  • Fiction