“My purity is based on the fact that nobody offered me much money. I suppose that had I moved into more popular realms, I might have surrendered some of the characteristics of my nature that are now described as virtues.” — Leonard Cohen, “Leonard Cohen’s Nervous Breakthrough,” Musician (July 1988)
“There is nothing so delightful, so pure, so innocent or enjoyable that some group has not forbidden it.” — Sheri S. Tepper, The Waters Rising
“Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.” — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.” — James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
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