Quotes About Taboo

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?

I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean.

Despite Eleanor being twelve to her husband's twenty-eight, they had begun sleeping together straight away

Was this how the characters in Harry Potter felt when the spoke the name of You-Know-Who?

No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.

And the nakedness, too. It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another's nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old.

It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another's nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old. Jonas

There's a fine line that divides pleasure and pain," he told her as he removed the butt plug from the tray, and the tube of lubricant. "It's so slim, that if went about the right way, the pain adds to the pleasure, in a dark erotic manner.

My rabies fear started with To Kill a Mockingbird, the same way my appendicitis fear started with Madeline, and my brain tumor fear started with Death Be Not Proud. On an ideal planet, children's books wouldn't be censored for references to sex, but for illness.

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces;

It was the most ordinary thing in the world, but it felt like we were doing something illegal, lovers or something, because in Japan dads don't generally hug and kiss their kids. Don't ask me why. They just don't. But we kissed and hugged because we were American, at least in our hearts, and then we'd both step away really fast in case anyone was watching.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

It was, for him, an object lesson in the importance of the "better out than in" free speech argument—that it was better to allow even the most reprehensible speech than to sweep it under the carpet, better to publicly contest and perhaps deride what was loathsome than to give it the glamour of taboo, and that, for the most part, people could be trusted to tell the good from the bad.

Criticizing a person's ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about physics or history is not.

being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much

No walking in the moonlight, no Ouija boards, no candles, no red shoes, no wearing black, no going shoeless, no amulets, no night-blooming flowers, no reading novels about magic, no cats, no crows, and no venturing below Fourteenth Street. Yet no matter

our mother recalled it. But the nun's language in these matters—matters of the body, of the flesh, what went on between women and men—

THEY DO NOT WANT to hear what their children suffer. They've made the telling of the suffering itself taboo.

conversation – about the weather, as that is what you like to talk about in England, other subjects being, er, forbidden, eh?

What is obscenity? And to whom?

The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl) They censor words not the things they denote: It would create less of a stir to drop a piece of shit on Grant's tomb than to write it out in white paint. Because people recognize that's what memorials are for–old bums & dogs to shit on.

Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!