"Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama."

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Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.138, Transaction Publishers

Irving Babbitt

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“A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.”
“The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.”
“I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.”
“I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.”
“I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up”
“My father read GÃ¼nter Grass. He introduced me to German literature. I believe the first book I read by a German author was from Grass. After that, Thomas Mann accompanied me for a few years during my literature studies. I tried again and again to read the original German text, but I never really succeeded.”
“We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.”
“The more I train, the more luckier I become.”

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