Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"Women should be obscene, not heard."
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Obscene
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Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas."
Jose Saramago
Writer
"It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene."
e. e. cummings
Poet, Painter
"guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders"
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions."
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"Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard."
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