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Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I . . .

Source: Seduction and Betrayal, address, 1972, Vassar College; in Seduction And Betrayal: Women and Literature, 1974.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick, (Jul 27 1916-2007), US author, critic; She was the first woman recipient of the Nathan Drama Criticism Award, 1967.

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