"We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years."

-- Roger Kimball

#Taken Quotes #Years Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.”
“Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.”

Source : Yoko Ogawa (2013). “Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales”, p.78, Picador
“Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.”
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”
“When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.”
“Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.”
“I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.”
“I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.”

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