
“To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.”
Sketches of Etruscan Places (1932)
As quoted in "Lady with a Switchblade" in LIFE magazine (20 September 1963) http://books.google.com/books?id=e1IEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Europeans+used+to+say+Americans+were+puritanical+Then+they+discovered+that+we+were+not+puritans+So+now+they+say+that+we+are+obsessed+with+sex%22&pg=PA62#v=onepage
“To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.”
Sketches of Etruscan Places (1932)
“It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."”
Isaiah 30.
Commentaries
Out of the Woods, written by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff
Song lyrics, 1989 (2014)
[The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685, https://books.google.com/books?id=toM-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31, 31, 1888, Houghton, Mifflin, 978-0-7222-0646-1]
A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 76
1910s
A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 53
1910s
Salon interview (1997)