E. L. Doctorow Quotes

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

E. L. Doctorow

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• Cold
• Gold
• Ethics
• Useless

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• Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Value
  • Cold
  • Gold