"This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?"

-- Mary McCarthy

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“In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.”
“I haven't ridden a bike in a while because I'm so scared I'll get hit and die.”

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“How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.”
“How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.”
“Death is a great tragedyâ€¦a profound lossâ€¦I donâ€™t accept itâ€¦I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.”
“I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.”
“I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.”
“There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost.”

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