In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher'...
John IrvingTag: baseball
God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms, but my ears were warm and sweaty, and my head had been held so tightly between her thighs that I hadn't heard anything.
John IrvingTag: high-notes
I have digressed, which is also the kind of writer I would become.
John IrvingTag: digression
Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds as much like a memoir as he can make it sound.
John IrvingTag: fiction
Why do you guys want to take all the mystery away? Isn't the mystery an exciting part of sex?
John IrvingTag: mystery-of-sex
You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train of thought, though unspoken, is unstoppable.
John IrvingTag: train-of-thought
...where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road.
John IrvingTag: desires
...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.
John IrvingTag: relationships friendships
You should wait, William," Miss Frost said. "The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.
John IrvingTag: madame-bovary
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
John IrvingTag: loneliness self-hatred
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