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  • Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

    - David Alan Mamet
      Title of play.

  • Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

    - Susan Sontag
      Against Interpretation,'Camus' Notebooks'.

  • They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

    - Anthony Trollope
      OfTrevelyan's paranoia about his wife's fidelity. HeKnew He Was Right, ch.38.

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