"Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved."

Source : "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, pp. 31-32: "The Plight of Culture" (1953), 1961.

Clement Greenberg

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“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”

Source : "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.
“Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.”

Source : Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year”, p.14, Open Road Media
“If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.”
“I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.”

Source : "Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor : The System Is Rigged Against You, Can You Beat the Odds Or Should You Stay On the Sidelines?" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2008.
“I want to be one who has to throw the big game.”
“I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.”
“You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.”
“I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.”

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