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«If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
corrupted, corruptibility, dealing, fiction writer, in a sense, mainly, Sex and, Shakespeare, themes, tremendous
«Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.»
«Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.»
«Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed»
«I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.»
«But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.»
«But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.»
«Ideas of superiority and inferiority arise only in a heart corrupted by egoism. If someone argues that he is higher or his religion is holier, it proves that he has missed the significance of his faith.»
«It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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calculate, chastity, commission, corrupted, mischief, professional, prostituted, subscribe, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing, the commission
«In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Nature
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Above the Law, buys, corrupted, currents, gild, gilded, offence, shuffled, shuffles, shuffling, the Action
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