Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.Enid Bagnold
It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
Enid Bagnold
As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
Enid Bagnold
Who wants to become a writer And why Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities..
Enid Bagnold
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold
The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from a girl so expectant 'Sex,' said Frank Harris, 'is the gateway to life.' So I went through the gateway in an upper room in the Cafe Royal.
Enid Bagnold
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