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It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.
Sep 29, 2025
The funniest things are the forbidden.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
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.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.
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.
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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