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All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.


Marya Mannes

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T. C. BOYLE Seduction is an art that is tested in the mirror
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Heroic be the Wanderess, <...
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ANEURIN BEVAN How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where...
JOHN DONNE Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
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UMBERTO ECO I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.
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MARYA MANNES Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
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