Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

—Shirley MacLaine

About Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cups, and two Silver Bears. She has...

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Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

—Shirley MacLaine

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

—Shirley MacLaine

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You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it; it is by nature self-erasing; you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

—E. L. Doctorow

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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had if only they persevere.

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But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

Desperate is not a sexual preference.

—Randy K. Milholland

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