Anne Desclos Quotes

#1. I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

Anne Desclos

#2. when you have a lovely but bitter past with someone and happens to meet them. Keep it light. Keep it short. Most of all, keep them, away.

Adhitya Mulya

#3. I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

Kevin Costner

#4. We're good at what we do because we're a family - this is in our bloody DNA; this is what we do.

Gerry Harvey

#5. Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

Anne Desclos

#6. Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

Rick Danko

#7. I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical. I thought that that must be embarrassing for him, and thought how much more pleasant it was to be a girl. That, by the way, is an opinion I still hold today.

Anne Desclos

#8. Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

Anne Desclos

#9. O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it ...

Anne Desclos

#10. Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?

Anne Desclos

#11. Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

Anne Desclos

#12. By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

Anne Desclos

#13. A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

Norman Mailer

#14. I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.

Anne Desclos

#15. I wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

Anne Desclos

#16. A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.

Anne Desclos

#17. Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

Anne Desclos

#18. Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

Anne Desclos

#19. The voluntary captive
The speechless the prisoner
Which I hide in my very depths ...

Anne Desclos

#20. To love is to live on the precipice.

Anne Desclos

#21. I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

Anne Desclos

#22. I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

Ricky Schroder

#23. It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

Chuck Palahniuk