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Quotes About Desire

And suddenly she was at him, after him with her fists, her struggling weight; he squeezed her against him, regretfully conscious even now, as her pinned fists flailed his shoulders and her face crumpled into contorted weeping and the sharp smell of perfume was scalded from her, that the expression, of serene superiority, of a beautiful secret continually tasted, was still on his face.
~ John Updike
One world: everybody fucks everybody. When he thinks of all the fucking there's been in the world and all the fucking there's going to be, and none of it for him, here he sits in this stuffy car dying, his heart just sinks. He'll never fuck anybody again in his lifetime except poor Janice Springer, he sees this possibility ahead of him straight and grim as the known road.
~ John Updike
America teaches its children that every passion can be transmuted into an occasion to buy.
~ John Updike
And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?
~ John Updike
If Rabbit knew a way to clone an adult sized vagina, Rabbit would clone it, have sex with it, then clone an arm to the side of that vagina so he could carry it with him everywhere he went like a big, fuzzy key chain.
~ John Updike
Do you think God wants a waterfall to be a tree?
~ John Updike
In general the churches ... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola: they promoted thirst without quenching it.
~ John Updike
The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
~ John Updike
He slouches down and in answer to Springer says, "Things go bad. Food goes bad, people go bad, maybe a whole country goes bad. The blacks now have more than ever, but it feels like less, maybe. We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything.
~ John Updike
He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes.
~ John Updike
In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.
~ John Updike
A mood of stirred-up unsatisfied desire at whose fringes licks the depressing idea that nothing matters very much, we'll all soon be dead.
~ John Updike
As they deepen together he feels impatience that through all their twists they remain separate flesh; he cannot dare enough, now that she is so much his friend in this search; everywhere they meet a wall. The body lacks voice to sing its own song.
~ John Updike
Din vânzarea maÈ™inilor a înv??at È™i el m?car atâta: ofer?-i clientului ceva ce nu vrea, ca s?-i par? mai atr?g?tor ceea ce-È™i doreÈ™te doar pe jum?tate
~ John Updike
Cudowny miód pÄ™czniaÅ' w moich pachwinach.
~ John Updike
At the sight of her submissively moving her lips his blood shouted Lord and his death leaned above him like a perfectly clear plate of glass.
~ John Updike
Harry sits wordless staring through the windshield, rigid in body, rigid in spirit. The curving highway seems a wide straight road that has opened up in front of him. There is nothing he wants to do but go down it.
~ John Updike
The slither of sheers as she rotates her body is a silver music, sheets of pale noise extending outward unresisted by space. There was a grip he used to have on her, his right hand cupping her skull through her hair and his left hand on her breasts gathering them together, so the nipples were an inch apart. The grip is still there.
~ John Updike
He must try to stop swearing; he wonders why he's doing it. To keep them apart, maybe; he feels a dangerous tug drawing him toward this man.
~ John Updike
I`d love to sell out completely. It`s just that nobody has been willing to buy.
~ John Waters
You should want to be rich at 40, at 20 you should want to kill the rich; it's the right of youth
~ John Waters
Fantasies are like extra cash. They need to be banked for later use.
~ John Waters
La vida no vale nada si no tienes una obsesión.
~ John Waters
Then, if to make your ruin more, You'll peevishly be coy, Die with the scandal of a whore And never know the joy.
~ John Wilmot