“ The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypo… Anais Nin
“ Trying to imagine , who found indecorous, at a London performance of —to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported —who during his first visit to Europe was e… David Markson
“ The sectarian divisions which plagued Marxism are manifestations of an urge for purity which the Left would be better off without. Richard M. Rorty
“ Vosotros los jóvenes no sabéis apreciar las cosas, proseguía. No sabéis lo que hemos tenido que pasar para lograr que estéis donde estáis. Míralo, es él quien pela las zanahorias. ¿Sabéis cuántas vida… Margaret Atwood
“ Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. Albert Camus
“ The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism. Salman Rushdie
“ Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher. Anya Seton
“ Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change. Puritanism, on t… Emma Goldman
“ But GOD was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven: Thus were the Stout Hearted spoiled, having slept their last Sleep, and none of the… John Mason
“ Let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory! Thus the LORD was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts, and to give us their Land for an Inheritance: Who remembred us in our low Estate, and… John Mason