“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without
being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in
beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are
the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such
thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly
written. That is all.”
―
Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I like that one!
I'm a "glass half empty" girl; this was meant to tell me to look on the bright side once in a while 😉
……..dhole
I can't help but wonder what Mr. Wilde would define as badly written: bad plot, bad character development, bad rhetoric?
Depends on one's views as well.
True. I agree with Wilde, tho.
Lover the quote and the cat.
Jo, I love both, too.
Excellent quote! I wonder if this goes for profanity in a book. The new series I'm working on is about people with lots of issues. Drug use to pole dancing. That is how they talk, sprinkled with uber amounts of bad grammar.
Hugs and chocolate,
Shelly
I feel a writer must write what comes to them– deliberate sanitization puts me off.