204 Quotes

“Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“...there's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli