Quotes with shabby

  • In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

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  • T. S. Eliot Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Sinclair Lewis In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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  • Jean Baudrillard The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • W. H. Auden When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • W. H. Auden When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Willa Cather Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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