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The Users The Users by Joyce Haber
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“For me, the worst sin is hypocrisy. The sinner is not the assassin. The sinner's the bastard who hires the assassin.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Gasping, screaming, rocking sideways and back and forth, she came. She kept his prick inside her until she felt yet another surge of his fuck. She came. He had come three times, she twice. And Marina wanted to come again.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Businessmen and admen and agents like me, we just do it a little more openly, with the price tag in almost full view. And do you know who uses each other most savagely of all? Lovers! Loving is using.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Haven't you heard, the Dread Scott decision has been overturned?"

"Not out here, baby," Warren replied, without a second's hesitation. "For that matter, not in Washington, either, or in Detroit, or at the Vatican, or at the Harvard Law School. People are objects and we use them. Out here, I like to think, the trappings surrounding the transaction are a little more attractive. But we're all the users.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“His eyes were riveted to the full, round breasts that had clearly been sculpted by God or nature and not a cosmetic surgeon.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Now, at seventy-two, there was not an inch of her body, including toes, buttocks, vagina and labia majora, knees, elbows, hairline and ears, which had not been re-sculpted, skin-grafted, drawn tight and polished.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“When you have your hair styled, you look like everybody else whose hair is in fashion. Never be in fashion. Always be yourself. There's nobody like you.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“If bisexuality was normal, Elena wondered, why did bisexuals try to make everyone else bisexual? Or homosexual.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Like any woman, Elena knew that there are three things you cannot upstage: a child, an animal, and a faggot.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Have you ever done it in a sauna" Marina asked. "It's even more exciting when it's hot."

"And more debilitating, I'll bet." He laughed. "Thank God we haven't got time to warm it up. It takes an hour to reach two hundred degrees."

He pulled his stiffened cock from her mouth. "I'm there already, baby.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Since when do you have to go home to suck cock?" asked David.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Under the spreading chestnut tree, I screwed you and you screwed me.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Bastard is a synonym of agent," he smiled, and added, "or studio chief.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“God creates monsters. Women encourage them."
"That sounds like a tract by Nancy O'Brien. Although I agree. Men are pigs."
"Natalie, darling, sometimes so are women.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“Women, Elena believed, appealed to men in direct proportion to their vacuousness. The male had an overwhelming compulsion to teach, to mold what he regarded as "the weaker sex.”
Joyce Haber, The Users
“...I got the word. It's get out of town, and it wasn't even from Mel Torme.

"If Natalie were here, she'd say Torme has the best pipes in town," said Elena.

"Anyone else might say that. What Nat would say is he has the biggest pipe in town.”
Joyce Haber, The Users