Perversion Quotes
103 quotes by 93 authors
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The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted…
— Brion Gysin
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Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.
— Frantz Fanon
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Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that…
— John Kennedy Toole
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Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
— John Kennedy Toole
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul,…
— Marquis de Sade
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force…
— Anais Nin
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
— Tom Stoppard
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The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real,…
— Richard Dawkins
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Yuki: "Is your brain directly wired to perversion?
— Natsuki Takaya
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The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease…
— Douglas Adams
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But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of…
— C.S. Lewis
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This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a…
— Franz Kafka
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There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings.…
— Mark Van Doren
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
— Wallace Stevens
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High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of…
— Milan Kundera
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More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
— Harvey Milk
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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
— James Dyson
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Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal…
— Henry Miller
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Abstinence is a perversion.
— Bill Maher
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