Purists Dislike

Famous quotes containing the words purists and/or dislike:

“So this is the subterranean life.
If it can’t be conjugated onto us, what good is it?
What need for purists when the demotic is built to last,
To outlast us, and no dialect hears us?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)