WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:01:30 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg prurience – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Asimov, Isaac -- The Gods Themselves, Sec. 3, ch. 12 (1972) https://wist.info/asimov-isaac/34537/ https://wist.info/asimov-isaac/34537/#respond Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:15:20 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34537 You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.


Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) Russian-American author, polymath, biochemist
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Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.


Gershon Legman (1917–1999) American writer
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