So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.