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• It’s art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn’t about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – ‘contain multitudes.’

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Multitudes, Decay

• Seriously, ‘Honey Boo Boo’ is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn’t mean it’s good.

  Adam Levine

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  Tags in Civilization, Decay

• Progress, this great heresy of decay.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Decay, Heresy

• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Topics in Age, Sad, Youth

  Tags in Melancholy, Prospects, Us, Well-Spent, Eternal, Bringing, Decay, Would, World, Better, Give, Reward, Old, Hopes, Instead, Comfortable

• Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Decay, Spiritual, Pickle, Preserving, Journalist

• All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Decay, Force

• And in the afternoon they entered a land – but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

  George Washington Cable

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  Tags in Decay, Mourning, Shadow, Silence

• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  Doris Day

  Topics in Age, Youth

  Tags in Middle, Decay, Levity, Without

• Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Decay, Vices, Thoughtless

• Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Tags in Decay, Terms

• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Tags in Decay