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No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
— When Harry Met Sally... • 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker asserts a blunt rule: a man who finds a woman attractive cannot be simply her friend, because he will always want sex with her. Presented as a sweeping generalisation, it treats desire as inevitably undermining friendship, which is the speaker's opinion rather than an established fact.
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