Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
E.L. DoctorowTag: capitalism
You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed.
E.L. DoctorowTag: prostitute
It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
E.L. DoctorowIt is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.
E.L. DoctorowThe businessmen wondered if they could create such individuals not from the accidents of news events but from the deliberate manufactures of their own medium.
E.L. DoctorowTag: businessmen
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.
E.L. DoctorowTag: capitalism
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E.L. DoctorowOrthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship.
E.L. DoctorowI can assure you Ernest Hemingway was wrong when he said modern American literature began with Huckleberry Finn. It begins with Moby-Dick, the book that swallowed European civilization whole.
E.L. DoctorowTag: american-literature
So what I realized when I was a child was that if I were traveling as fast as light while holding a mirror before me, I would not see my image in the mirror, because as fast as the image of my face in light moved toward the mirror, why, just as fast would the mirror be moving away... It is a rather frightening idea, in fact, that if I moved at the speed of light, I could get no confirmation of my existence from an objective source of reflected light such as a mirror. I would be like a ghost in the universe, materially unverifiable in the stream of time.
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