The lack of pretension extends to the way we dress. Our jeans are dirty not because they’re rarely washed, but because we work with grease, dirt or steel. That ground-in grime is a badge of a day’s work well done… Most Red Americans can’t deconstruct postmodern literature, give proper orders to a nanny, pick out […]
Common Quotes
Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.
What a commonplace genius he (Thomas Hardy) has; or a genius for the commonplace, I don’t know which.
