Obscenity

(273 votes)   Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(174 votes)   Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer

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(143 votes)   Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(135 votes)   Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
1899-1985, American Author, Editor

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(135 votes)   The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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