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«Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within set bounds; the creations which yesterday were the detested and the obscene become the classics of today.»
Author: Matthew Tobriner
| Keywords:
bounds, classics, creations, detested, monuments, obscene, self-expression, The Classics
«Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.»
Author: William J. Brennan, Jr.
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
appealing, deals, obscene, obscenity, prurient, sex appeal
«The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
age of, Age of Reason, calamity, endlessly, For some, fussed, fussing, grotesques, growing, importance, joyless, mysterious, obscene, passed, real life, so far, staying, The Age, thirty, without reasoning
«It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.»
«Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us»
«Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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American, business, conscience, discussion, guess, muted, mutes, obscene, profit, the discussion
«The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| About:
Murder
| Keywords:
holocaust, holocausts, obscene, The holocaust
«My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
boisterous, confused, diabolically, lustier, lusty, negligent, obscene, reckless, scrupulous, the books, truthful
«I gotta tell ya, with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene.»
«Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so»
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