Quotes About Taboo

was forbidden throughout the empire to produce or to display images of Christ

You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.

Y eso es lo que nuestra sociedad no maneja bien: enseguida escondemos o prohibimos tácitamente el sufrimiento.

We stayed away from the fact of Lark's existence, or anything to do with our actual thoughts.

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

I want to be able to hump people's legs and have them do nothing about it.

In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid.

In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates and the power which destroys; the power which is benign and the power which is malign. Odd that we have retained in our vocabulary the word for dangerous power, taboo, and have lost mana.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

The homosexuals wrote as if they were women. The timid ones wrote about orgies. The frigid ones about frenzied fulfill-ments. The most poetic ones indulged in pure bestiality and the purest ones in perversions. We were haunted by the marvelous tales we could not tell. We sat around, imagined this old man, talked of how much we hated him, because he would not allow us to make a fusion of sexuality and feeling, sensuality and emotion.

to press me hotly, and we dance, sexes soldered, hot, burning, saying: Open your legs, God, I want you like hell, I could take you right here. Whore, whore, whore at last.

One thing about American liberality, obscenity, etc. Just saw a book of Hemingway's—short stories—Winner Takes Nothing. He says out most anything and everything. For "fuck" they print "f---

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

Let us tell them the painful truth, that most of these works of art are about God, whom we never mention in polite society.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Usually people avoided mentioning Abel's name, as if he'd done something unforgiveable. Which I guess he had: He reminded people of the cruel unfairness of life, and the closeness of death.

Every time my parents bring up the subject of if I want to go back to Lake Hills or transfer somewhere else it makes me want to take more pills. Like that's even a possibility. Anything that might resemble a pill is under lock and key in our house. The next time I get my period, I'm going to have to ask Mom's permission for a Midol. She's probably going to ration my use of tampons in case I try to make a noose out of the strings.

Don't bring up McKinley. Don't bring up McKinley.

Every tradition forbids the asking of certain questions about what has really happened to you.

I have explored and have voluntarily entered into domains forbidden by a large fraction of those in our culture who are not curious, are not explorative and are not mentally equipped to enter these domains.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.