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Quotes About Taboo

Más de la mitad de la cultura moderna depende de lo que no debería leerse
~ Oscar Wilde
You can't tell me if there are any special subjects to avoid when talking to him, can you?' 'Special subjects?' 'Well, you know how it is with a stranger. You say it's a fine day, and he goes all white and tense, because you've reminded him that it was on a fine day that his wife eloped with the chauffeur.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Nobody ever wants to do anything except what they are not allowed to do.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.
~ Pablo Picasso
Fuck her standing, Fuck her lying, Cut her throat and fuck her dying, When she's dead but not forgotten Dig her up and fuck her rotten.
~ Pat Barker
It should not be a crime to discuss any idea, however outrageous
~ Pat Califia
There is nothing more erotic on earth than a boy in love with the shape and touch of his mother. It is the most exquisite, most proscribed lust. It is also the most natural and damaging.
~ Pat Conroy
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
~ Patricia Highsmith
For the record, here is my entire vocabulary of manageable words: fuck, shit, piss, cunt, goddamn, motherfucker, asshole, peepee, and poopoo.
~ Dan Simmons
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
~ Mark Twain
Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
~ Albert Brooks
There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
~ Courtney Love
Are there aspects of our lives - things we do, feel and think - that we daren't confess, even to ourselves, even in the absolute privacy of our private record.
~ William Boyd
I said I have committed incest father I said
~ William Faulkner
Kiss me, Bayard. No. You are Father's wife. And eight years older than you are. And your fourth cousin too. And I have black hair. Kiss me, Bayard.
~ William Faulkner
I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.
~ China Mieville
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.
~ China Mieville
Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.
~ Chris Abani
He'd be all right if a man was to stretch a cow pussy over his head and let a bull fuck some sense into him.
~ Chris Offutt
People take sex far too seriously.
~ Christina Aguilera
Mine is an unusual case, although the condition is not so rare as the average person would think. It is more a problem of social taboos and the desire not to speak of the subject, because it deals with the great "hush-hush," namely, Sex.
~ Christine Jorgensen
Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn't worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.
~ Christopher Bram
Sexual desire is only the frustrated desire to eat human flesh.
~ Christopher Frayling
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.
~ Helen DeWitt