The Quiet American Sexuality and Sexual Identity Quotes

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Quote #10

It was impossible to conceive either of them a prey to untidy passion: they did not belong to rumpled sheets and the sweat of sex. Did they take deodorants to bed with them? I found myself for a moment envying their sterilized world, so different from this world that I inhabited – which suddenly inexplicably broke in pieces. (3.2.2.17)

Fowler might not try to control his sexual world by sanitizing it, but he very much wants it under his control. He's very bothered by Pyle's attempt to take Phuong from him.