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Ronald Hayman


Born
in Bournemouth, The United Kingdom
May 04, 1932

Genre
Biography


Ronald Hayman is a critic, dramatist, director and writer best known for his biographies.

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Average rating: 3.62 · 1,305 ratings · 137 reviews · 69 distinct works • Similar authors
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“Between a man and his mother-in-law, as between a woman and her father-in-law, unacknowledged sexual desire can easily open a wound which will go on festering with jealousy, resentment and hatred, but no woman has ever waged war against her son-in-law more relentlessly than she {Madame de Montreuil] did.”
― Ronald Hayman, De Sade: A Critical Biography
tags: de-sade, jealousy, madame-de-montreuil, mother-in-law, revenge
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“Sade never understood how exceptional he was in not feeling frightened of freedom.”
― Ronald Hayman, De Sade: A Critical Biography
tags: de-sade, freedom
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“One of the stock arguments against describing the sexual act is that it is always the same. Sade's structure is based on the conviction that it is not: an enormously extended set of variations moves progressively away from the original theme. This was not merely a stratagem for avoiding repetition: it was a logical development from the assumption that to the connoisseur of sexual pleasure, diversification is essential.”
― Ronald Hayman, De Sade: A Critical Biography
tags: sex, sexual-diversification
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