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The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.


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I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.



The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.



A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.



It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.



The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.



Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.



Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.



Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.



The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.



At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.





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Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn’t it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I’ve ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely dark sense of humour.



Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.



With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.



Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.



As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.



I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.



We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.



You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you



Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.



Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.




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