"In New York -- whose subway trains in……" — Gilbert Adair
"In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves."
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Gilbert Adair
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8 Quotes by Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair has 8 quotes on this site.
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We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
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The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.
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The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's…
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All isms end in fascism.
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Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and…
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There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a…
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Love is blind but not deaf.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
— David Brinkley
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I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in…
— William S. Burroughs
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in…
— Marina Abramovic
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
— Mark Twain
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is…
— Phil Dusenberry
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Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot…
— Blake Mycoskie
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication…
— Theodor Adorno
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention…
— Samuel Johnson
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