title: The Kiss: A Romantic Treasury Of Photographs And Quotes (Running Press Miniature Editions)
author: Molly Jay
description: Is a kiss really just a kiss? This collection of quotes and black-and-white photographs proves once and for all that a kiss is hardly ever without subtext. From cynics like <a href="/exec/obidos/author=Swift%2c%20Jonathan/${0}">Jonathan Swift</a> ("Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing?") to the sultry Mae West ("I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.") to romantics like <a href="/exec/obidos/author=cummings%2c%20Edward%20Estlin/${0}">e.e. cummings</a> ("...kisses are a better fate than wisdom.") to realists like Dr. Henry Gibbons ("A kiss is the anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicular muscles in a state of contraction."), these folks have said a mouthful about kissing.
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  One Daring Night
   
   
   
   
  Mari Carr
   
  
  Chapter One
   
   
   
  Eric Bryant leaned back and sighed, the quiet ambiance of
  Prime 112, his favorite restaurant, failing to jerk him out of his
  melancholy. “I’m telling you, man. You were smart to take
  yourself off the meat market.”
  Alex Dare shook his head. “I don’t think it was a
  completely conscious decision. Took one look at Madison and
  that was it for me. Believe me, up until I met her, I thought I
  was pretty happy feasting on the banquet of beautiful women
  here in M