Quote by James Howard Kunstler Download Open image ““The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous,”” — James Howard Kunstler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.” — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness.” — Megan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Let me not be sentimental, let the distance in time give me humor and irony and a shrewd, if loving, eye.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“On my way out of [Atlantic City] at quarter after seven in the morning, a young pump jockey at the gas station [...] mentioned… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality. We're not… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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