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Letter "S" » shabby
«It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.»
Author: Edgar Z. Friedenberg
(Critic, Educator, Sociologist)
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arrogance, fairly, shabbier, shabby
«The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.»
Author: Sid Vicious
| Keywords:
embarrassment, embarrassments, hats, nasty, rotten, shabbier, shabby, The Band, The Embarrassment
«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»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
(Writer)
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«Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
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«If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«If a ragnar?k would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art ? and I'd go back to trees..»
«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.»
«Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Adventure
| Keywords:
deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, equipment, imprecision, inarticulate, mess, raid, raids, shabbier, shabby, venture
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