A kiss, for instance, is not to be minimized, or its value judged by anyone else. I wonder do these men grade their pleasure in terms of whether their actions produce a child or not, and do they consider them more pleasant if they do. It is a question of pleasure after all, and what’s the use of debating the pleasure of an ice cream cone versus a football game – or a Beethoven quartet versus the Mona Lisa. I’ll leave that to the philosophers.
-Patricia Highsmith
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