“It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.”

— José Saramago

Não é a pornografia que é obscena, é a fome que é obscena <br class="br"> Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuohB_arwRE&lr=1 Programa Jô Soares, 1997.

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