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If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Ralph Waldo Emerson |

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Camille Anna Paglia |

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | David Foster Wallace |