"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."

-- Joseph Epstein

#Class Quotes #Style Quotes #May Quotes

“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.”
“I think women bring a different perspective into Senate and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach.”
“People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.”
“Canada doesnâ€™t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.”
“All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.35, Overamstel Uitgevers
“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.”
“Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, Northwestern Univ Pr
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