Forbidden Things Quotes

• We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

  Francois Rabelais

  Long, Forbidden Love, Desire

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• The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

  Mark Twain

  Literature, Forbidden Fruit, Forbidden

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

  Amy Tan

  Reading, Influence, Catchers

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Yield, Law, Sick

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

  Ovid

  Desire, Coveting, Strive

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• The funniest things are the forbidden.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Novelists

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

  Franny Billingsley

  Principles, Picnics, Taste

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• I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Mind, Madness

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.383, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Death, People, Want

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• Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Jobs, Fiction, Kind

  "Jennifer Weiner broadens from best-sellers to TV". Interview with Sandy Cohen, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 28, 2011.

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