Communication Quote by Charles Baxter

“Ever since it became theoretically evident that our precious personal identities were just brand-tags for trading crumbs of labour-power on the libidino-economic junk circuit,…

— Nick Land

“in a world increasingly swayed by private wealth and personal brands.”

— Michael Wolff

“At the logic of fashion, such once-popular perversions as pedophilia and sodomy will become derided cliches, as amusing as pottery ducks on suburban walls.”

— J.G. Ballard

“How people are often merciless on those they love the most”

— Maggie Nelson

“The Business of the World is Trade and Death, and you must engage with that unpleasantness, as the price of your not-at-all-assur'd Moment of…

— Thomas Pynchon

“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable…

— John Keats

“...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.”

— Steven Moore

“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just as the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is…

— Albert Einstein

“This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“It’s inescapable – we live in a world where what’s seen as successful, fashionable or beautiful is heavily shaped by a power base with…

— Francesca Martínez