Declinists Quotes & Sayings

All the rare-book dealers regaled me with stories of the trade. They told me that after the war there were too many books and not enough bookshop space, so all the dealers in London BURIED hundreds of old books in the open bomb craters of London streets. Today the buried books would be worth a fortune if they could be recovered, if the new buildings could be torn down and the rebuilt streets torn up. I had a sudden vision of an atomic war destroying everything in the world, except here and there an old book lying where it fell when it was blasted up out of the depths of London. — Helene Hanff

The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different - to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices. — Virginia Postrel

All media work us over completely. — Marshall McLuhan

Only those who do not use life as a reason for artificialities are intelligently valuing life. — Lao-Tzu

No day passed that did not present an opportunity to become obsessed with a new area of concern. — Bea Gonzalez

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager. — Haim Ginott

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. — Winona Ryder

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. — Thomas Gold Appleton