Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
—Eric Bentley
Topics: Society
Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
—Eric Bentley
Topics: Fashion
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
—Eric Bentley
Topics: Hope
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Edward Albee American Playwright
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Langston Hughes American Poet, Writer
Henry Adams American Historian
William Dean Howells American Writer, Critic
Allen Ginsberg American Poet
Lionel Trilling American Critic
Thornton Wilder American Novelist, Dramatist