Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."
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D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says."
Gunter Grass
Novelist
"Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand."
Gunter Grass
Novelist
"Art is hard for a puritan to understand."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime."
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"Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan."
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"I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain."
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"Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex."
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