"A man can fuck a whore but, unless his wife is a whore, he cannot fuck his wife….fuck is a…dysphemism….there is no love in it."

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Sexuality
Original Language: English

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Anthony Burgess, Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence (1985), quoted in B. R. Myers, "Smaller Than Life", The Atlantic (October 2010)