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Eric Gill

"Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill."

Source : Eric Gill, D. Liam O'Huallachain, John Sharpe (2008). “Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity”, Ihs Press

Eric Gill

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“Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.”
“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
“I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.”
“Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.”
“How many more people have to die or be afraid or be injured in Chelsea, New York, Erin, for us to wake up?”
“You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.”
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
“How did it get so late so soon?”

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