"The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the Ã©clat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers."

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Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.77, Courier Corporation

Thorstein Veblen

#Eye Quotes #Class Quotes #Portions Quotes

“In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.”
“Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.”
“I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.”
“There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
“My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.”
“Vampires,after all,don't sparkle.”
“It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics.”
“From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.”

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