The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Never yet has such furious movement brought in its train such slowness in the passage of time. Everything is spinning, only time stands still.… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Above all there's a lack of personal discipline, manners, decorum, natural discretion. If everyone causes their own individual catastrophes, how can there fail to… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“The world to come will be like this triangular railroad junction, raised to some unknown power. The earth has lived through several evolutionary stages… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“[O]ur relationship with nature has become warped. You see, nature has acquired a purpose where we are concerned. Its task is to amuse us.… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories. — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Of course the merchandise appears to be cheaper. Because where there are so many things close together, they can hardly help not thinking of… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“The weeping willows, on the other hand, are evocative of death. They are a little contrived, a little exaggerated, still green in the middle… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about. — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Because human nature will not deny its weaknesses, even where it is seemingly in the process of overcoming them.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
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