Obscene

Famous quotes containing the word obscene:

    The cats will be glad; the fathers feel justified; the mothers
    relieved.
    The sons and husbands will no longer need to pay the bills.
    Childhoods will be put away, the obscene nightmare abated.
    Louise Bogan (1897–1970)

    But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
    Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)

    ... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
    Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)