Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.