Quotes with obscenity

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• If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

  De last die ze droegen (1990) 66

  Tim O'Brien
  American novelist (1946 - )
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• Money doesn't talk, it swears.
  Obscenity, who really cares? Propaganda all is phony.

  Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

  Bob Dylan
  American musician (1941 - )
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• Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

  Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

  Herbert Marcuse
  German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
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• Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  English poet (1792 - 1822)
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• Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

  David Herbert Lawrence
  English writer (1885 - 1930)
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• The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

  Anais Nin
  French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• blood-drenched
• unadulterated
• manifestation
• accompanies
• whatever
• ignorant

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