'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
“The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft , that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“About these developments George Orwell , in Nineteen Eighty-Four , was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.' — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“While aesthetic richness has prevailed in Indian spiritual life form ancient times, there has also been a parallel puritanical aspect among Indian… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
“The chief care of the legislators [in the colonies of New England] was the maintenance of orderly conduct and good morals in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest. — Thomas Hooker Copy Share Image
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