Absence Quote by John Carroll

“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of…

— Mark Fisher

“The man who loves the rising sun must equally adore the darkest night. How else will the sun rise if not through the darkness?…

— David Sinclair

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of…

— Paul Goodman

“Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic…

— Niall Ferguson

“William O'Neill, another historian, observed wryly that many universities prior to the rise of student unrest had at least required hard work and discipline—training…

— James T. Patterson

Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself,…

— Henry Watson Fowler

“tedium is the worst pain. the mind lays out the world in blocks, and the hushed blood waits for revenge. all order, i've come…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

“(To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)”

— John Connolly

“...it was worth the tedium of visitors to experience the pleasure of their going.”

— Daphne du Maurier

Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I…

— James Berardinelli

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty,…

— Dorothy Parker

A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's…

— Michael Dirda