#decade

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades. ↗

— Paul Hirsch

#been #career #changes #decades #i

We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#all americans #change #country #current #decades

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#born #decade #every #generation #obsessed

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that. ↗

— David Sylvian

#creating #decade #decent #every #fun

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position. ↗

— Joe Miller

#bankrupt #being #constitution #decades #disingenuous

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous. ↗

— James Woolsey

#decades #east #i #i think #lot

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past. The Last Generation ↗

— James Elroy Flecker

#literature #nostalgia #age

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#creativity #decadence #decadent #art

Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil, the green glow of corruption flickers into sight, steadies, and spreads everywhere, fostered by Lorrain's horrified and complicitous gaze. This decadent detective is at one with the criminal he pursues, acknowledging openly that the representation of corruption is one of the most pleasurable forms that corruption can take. In this enterprise, art is the mask that both exposes and conceals culpability. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#corruption #crime #criminal #culpability #decadence

It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated there, denounced by press and pulpit, censured even by the most advanced of literary anarchists. No definite principles had been violated in those wicked pages, no doctrine promulgated, no convictions outraged. It could not be judged by any known standard, yet, although it was acknowledged that the supreme note of art had been struck in "The King in Yellow," all felt that human nature could not bear the strain nor thrive on words in which the essence of purest poison lurked. The very banality and innocence of the first act only allowed the blow to fall afterwards with more awful effect. ↗

— Robert W. Chambers

#decadents #art