Forbidden Fruit/Quotes
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Adam was but human--this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
—Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
—Ovid, Amores
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When I read the warning label on the gun that read "Please do not shoot at people," I immediately wanted to start shooting at people. Why did I do something that people shouldn't do? That itself explained how primitive and childish I was at the time.
—Keiichi, telling his friends how he got started shooting little girls with his bb gun, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
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Forbidden, pp. Invested with a new and irresistable charm.
—Ambrose Bierce, from his 'Devil's Dictionary'
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I'm not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be to forbid him to read them and then give him plenty of time to disobey you.
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"The more you want to hide it, the more I want to see it."
—So many parents.
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