Amuses Quotes
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These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement.
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses
himself byapplying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
henry adams— Ch. 12. (The Education of Henry Adams (1907))
Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it’s a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations. "Atheistic humanism" became inhumanism in the hands of the Fascists and Communists and, in its less malign form in today's European Union, a kind of dehumamism in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction. Post-Christian European culture is already post-cultural and, with its surging Muslim populations, will soon be post-European.
mark steyn— America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (2006), Regnery Publishing, p. 98 ISBN 0-89526-078-6
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
gabriel garcía márquez— The Art of Fiction, #69: Interview with Peter H. Stone (Issue 82, Winter 1981), The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Sixth Series (Viking/Penguin, 1984, ISBN 0-140-07736-7), p. 322
