If I was telling that story in a '50s style, it would have been a melodrama, ... a story of 'An innocent girl falls into the seedy, sordid world of bondage and then sees the light and is born again.' If I were telling it now in an urban, sophisticated way, you would have a story about a girl who is a free spirit, who does these lighthearted bondage photos, then she crashes and she turns to religion which would be the tragedy in the modern view, because it's so polarized now that people see any religion as representing the horrible forces of puritanism. I was trying to comment on the sad confusion surrounding sex at that time, present it in a complex way, and give her religion a fair hearing too.
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I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy
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Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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