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«It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.»
Author: Edgar Z. Friedenberg
(Critic, Educator, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
arrogance, fairly, shabbier, shabby
«The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.»
Author: Sid Vicious
| Keywords:
embarrassment, embarrassments, hats, nasty, rotten, shabbier, shabby, The Band, The Embarrassment
«In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
(Writer)
| Keywords:
booze, bummed, bums, businessman, decent, feeding, indistinguishable, painter, shabbier, shabby, spaghetti
«Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
| Keywords:
hangs, Long Winter, old country, shabbier, shabby, sullen, towns
«If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«If a ragnar?k would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art ? and I'd go back to trees..»
«The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.»
«Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Adventure
| Keywords:
deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, equipment, imprecision, inarticulate, mess, raid, raids, shabbier, shabby, venture
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