Meretricious Quotes
7 quotes by 7 authors
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and…
— Mark Twain
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It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,…
— Martin Amis
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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
— D. H. Lawrence
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French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go…
— Noam Chomsky
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His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that…
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Who Wrote These Meretricious Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 7 Meretricious Quotes as follows: