A Quote by Amy Bloom
The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.
To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.
Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that in a Roast situation. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo.
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.
It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.
The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.
In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at any given historical moment, ... the fathers of pragmatism made the satisfaction of the subject the criterion of truth. For such a doctrine there is no possibility of rejecting or even criticizing any species of belief that is enjoyed by its adherents.
There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.
If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my truth' or 'your truth,' even though we may believe it. It can only be our delusion or our mistake or our error, but it can never be our 'truth.'
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