A Melon For Ecstasy

A Melon for Ecstasy is a 1971 novel written by John Fortune and John Wells. The title is derived from a fictional Turkish proverb, "A woman for duty / A boy for pleasure / But a melon for ecstasy."

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Famous quotes containing the words melon and/or ecstasy:

    A melon forced off the vine will not be sweet.
    Chinese proverb.

    Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
    Georges Bataille (1897–1962)