E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value."
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Filth
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Debbie Reynolds
Actress, Singer
"I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!"
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves."
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth."
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"Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin"
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"The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time."
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"Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions."
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"I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance."
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"Between urine and filth we are born."
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"Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black."
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"The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers."
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"Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth)."
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"One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable."
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