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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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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to…
— Jane Austen
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
— William Hazlitt
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Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony…
— Charles Lapworth
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The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable…
— John Stokes
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Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.
— Neil Strauss
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There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception…
— Samuel Johnson
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Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love…
— Remy de Gourmont
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for…
— Aristotle
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