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Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
— Lewis H. Lapham
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not.
— Alan Sillitoe
Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
— Lewis H. Lapham
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.
— Lewis H. Lapham
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
— Lewis H. Lapham
The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.
— Lewis H. Lapham
People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.
— Bill Bruford
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
— Lewis H. Lapham
It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.
— Alistair Begg
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Oh yes, I'm at my happiest when I have a good idea and I'm drawing it well, and it comes out well and somebody laughs at it.
— Charles M. Schulz
History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
— Lewis H. Lapham
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
— Lewis H. Lapham
The supply of government exceeds demand.
— Lewis H. Lapham
ultimate demonstration of Constance's taste for the
— Tracy Rees
Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.
— Timothy Miller
The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
— Lewis H. Lapham
If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
— Todd Gitlin
The leading cause of death is birth.
— Lewis H. Lapham
For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
— Cressida Cowell
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
— Lewis H. Lapham
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Hate heals, you should try it sometime.
— Kerry King
When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?
— Lewis H. Lapham
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
— Lewis H. Lapham
I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.
— Michael Lee West
It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.
— Rabindranath Tagore