I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy … - Elinor Wylie

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I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.

Elinor Wylie

I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation. . . in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!

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