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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.


Christopher Lasch

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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', '...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Infinite riches in a little room.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
CHRISTOPHER QUILL Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
CHRISTOPHER MOORE