#profanity

The shots left a hard ringing sound within the closeness of the brick walls. Terry held the pistol at arm's length on a level with his eyes--the Russian Tokarev resembling an old-model Colt .45, big and heavy--and made the sign of the cross with it over the dead. He said, "Rest in peace, motherfuckers," turned, and walked out of the beer lady's house to wait at the side of the road. ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#death #guns #murder #profanity #death

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly. ↗

— Spencer W. Kimball

#effort

Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit. I myself was confounded as shit... ↗

— David Sedaris

#shit #swearing #tofu #desire

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#censorship #profanity #censorship

Play it fuckin' loud! ↗

— Bob Dylan

#music #profanity #rock-music #music

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. ↗

— Brendan Gill

#profanity #review #art

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. ↗