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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
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The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for…
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Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work…
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The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a…
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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be…
— George Santayana
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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction…
— Aldous Huxley
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Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes…
— Donald Bradman
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
— Virginia Postrel
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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My…
— Frank Gehry
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The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic…
— J D Salinger
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