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Quotation from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Preface (Project Gutenberg #174 (1891 text))
One of the aphorisms Wilde prefixed to the 1891 edition in answer to reviewers who had called the magazine version immoral.
Citation: "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Preface (Project Gutenberg #174 (1891 text)). (id the-picture-of-dorian-gray-q1)
Portrait: Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated, Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
