Expurgated Quotes

#1. Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!

H. Beam Piper

#2. But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Alfred Jarry

#4. We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion!

David R. Palmer

#5. The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Walt Whitman

#6. I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

Mark Twain

#7. Under the authority of a language that had been carefully expurgated so that it was no longer directly named, sex was taken charge of, tracked down as it were, by a discourse that aimed to allow it no obscurity, no respite.

Michel Foucault

#8. The religious foundations of America have been completely expurgated from our history textbooks.

D. James Kennedy

#9. It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.

Steve Jones

#10. God: But it is my creation...!

The Saint of Killers: It's outgrown you.

Garth Ennis

#11. I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who've hurt you. (Kiara) You're doing that now. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Mignon McLaughlin

#13. It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.

Patti Smith

#14. Never judge the length of a book by it's spine!

Stephanie Bates

#15. Increasingly the individuals who want to live together are, or more precisely are becoming, the legislators of their own way of life, the judges of their own transgressions, the priests who absolve their own sins and the therapists who loosen the bonds of their own past.

Ulrich Beck Y Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

#16. But after that night when I took her home and kissed her for the first time, she owned me.

Michelle Horst

#17. You know what the problem is with world hunger? We've been sending them food.

Sam Kinison

#18. Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Alexander Lowen

#19. I think every person should go to jail once.

Ernests Gulbis

#20. I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'

Tom Scholz

#21. To be just, is not enough to refrain from injustice. Once must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self interest as the driving force of society.

Pedro Arrupe

#22. This life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

#23. I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think pornography has added to our sensual life.

Anais Nin