Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. – Plutarch
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. – Marshall McLuhan
The Laws of Clothing Shopping: If you like it, they dont have it in your size. If you like it and it fits, you cant afford it. If you like it, it fits and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wear it. If the shoe fits, its ugly. – Proverb
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. Theyre short, theyre intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. – Caroline Kennedy
I only tell fairy-tales (said the Philosopher) for I would rather be seen in their sober vestments than in the prismatic unlikelihood of reality. – Christina Stead, “Lemonias,” The Salzburg Tales, 1934
