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Seductive Quotes

Andrea Dworkin quote: "Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In..."
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. Andrea Dworkin
Jean Baudrillard quote: "Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it..."
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. Jean Baudrillard
Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed? Stephen King
Marya Mannes quote: "All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the..."
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes
David Foster Wallace quote: "Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as..."
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. David Foster Wallace
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. Umberto Eco
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One..."
Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice. Benjamin Franklin
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity. Dean Koontz
Susan Sontag quote: "Art is seduction, not rape."
Art is seduction, not rape. Susan Sontag
I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living. Laurell K. Hamilton
If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly... Tom Robbins
I remember asking John, after Dusklands, what new project he had on the go. His answer was vague. 'There is always something or the other I am working on', he said. 'If I yield to the seduction of not working, what would I do with myself? What would there be to live for? I would have to shoot myself. J. M. Coetzee
Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and... Edward Abbey
We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the veracity of living phantoms, of wandering and simulating animals that capital, that the death of capital has made of us—because the desert of cities is equal to the desert of sand—the jungle of signs is equal to that of the forests—the vertigo of simulacra is equal to that of nature—only the vertiginous seduction of a dying system remains, in which work buries work,... Jean Baudrillard
These are the seductive voices of the night; the Sirens, too, sang that way. It would be doing them an injustice to think that they wanted to seduce; they knew they had claws and sterile wombs, and they lamented this aloud. They could not help it if their laments sounded so beautiful. Franz Kafka

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