There were many words
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. Ernest Hemingway
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. Ernest Hemingway
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. Emile M. Cioran
They’re [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people’s death. And they’re benefiting by people’s suffering. And I find that obscene. I find it ridiculous in this day and age, that that would happen. And it took President Clinton to go to rogue pharmaceutical companies to copy the antiretroviral drugs for a fraction of … Read more
… though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror. Ellen Glasgow
The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That’s obscene. Elizabeth Warren
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Edward Elgar
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work. Edward Elgar
There’s nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas. Edward Abbey
guilt is the cause of more marauders than history’s most obscene disauders e. e. cummings
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write. e. e. cummings