Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings.
I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human l...
By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very...
The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign lang...
The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice...
War is a perversion of sex.
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?
Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess ...
Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is caught in miniature. The genius of the artist entangles perpetrators and victims in a sticky web of perverse delights,...
Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.
Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
I know you. Perversity is your aphrodisiac.
Sometimes out of sheer perversity reality conforms to my wishes.
Sometimes out of sheer perversion reality conforms to my wishes.
