Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
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History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
