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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.


Charles Jencks

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CHARLES SPURGEON Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u...
CHARLES BURNEY She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
CHARLES LAMB Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra...
CHARLES LAMB These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion hu...
CHARLES COLTON Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
CHARLES JAMES Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DEGAULLE Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint...
CHARLES BASS The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
CHARLES SUMNER How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY