"The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening."

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Source : "Fictional character: Terry McKay". "Love Affair", www.imdb.com. 1939.

Irene Dunne

#Illegal Quotes #Fattening Quotes #Immoral Quotes

“Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.”
“We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.”
“Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day.”

Source : Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.109, Macmillan
“I already did everything one time and that makes that one time stick out.”
“You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.”
“The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,”

Source : "The editor's multiple mentions" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. October 19, 2009.
“Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.”
“I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?”

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