Unexpurgated Quotes

#1. When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

Mark Twain

#2. At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

Leonard Woolf

#3. Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

Eugene Field

#4. Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

Jeffrey Tayler

#5. The words I can't say are the holes I punch in the walls of my psyche ...

John Geddes

#6. Flying is simple. Hitting the ground is hard

Josh Stern

#7. The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#8. I don't want to hurt you or anybody s just please forget about e. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.I never laughed as hard as I laughed with you but now not even the laughing feels good.

Nina LaCour

#9. Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

David Lloyd-Jones