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• Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Broken, Pieces, Thousand

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.75, Verso

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• Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.

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  Broken, Faults, Anything Goes

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.75, Verso

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• But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

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  Wall, Army, Ruins

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.186, Verso

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• His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

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  Mean, Government, Television

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• We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.

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  Depressing, Agency, Self

  "Waiting For The Barbarians" by Lewis H. Lapham, (p. 197), 1997.

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• Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

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  Expansion, Credit, World

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 197-198), 1989.

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• If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.

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  Wise, Blessing, Water Of Life

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• [For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Ignorance, Rivers

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• Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

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  Book, Diaries, Letters

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• What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

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  Common Purpose, People, Wish

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.31, Verso

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• Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

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  Country, Men, Nbc

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• La naturaleza mística del consumo estadounidense explica su falta de alegría. Pasamos mucho tiempo en las tiendas, pero si no parece que disfrutemos mucho comprando, es porque estamos inmersos en actos de sacrificio y autodefinición. Avergonzados en presencia de mercancías caras, nos reconocemos... como suplicantes admitidos en un santuario.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Shrines

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• Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

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  Light, Fire, Vanity

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). "Dinero y clase en América: Notas y Observaciones sobre la Religión Civil"

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• La desconfianza nacional hacia el temperamento contemplativo surge menos de un filisteísmo innato que de un recelo hacia todo lo que no pueda contarse, disecarse, enmarcarse o montarse sobre la chimenea del estudio.

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  Fire, Framed, Contemplation

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). "Dinero y clase en América: Notas y Observaciones sobre la Religión Civil"

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• Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

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  Wall, Pain, Media

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• 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.

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  Self, Mazes, Way

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• To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

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  Passion, Black, One Day

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• The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

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  Media, Pages, Advertising

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). "Dinero y clase en América: Notas y Observaciones sobre la Religión Civil"

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• 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.

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  Dream, Way, Invisible

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). "Dinero y clase en América: Notas y Observaciones sobre la Religión Civil"

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• Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

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  War, Forever, News

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). "Dinero y clase en América: Notas y Observaciones sobre la Religión Civil"

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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.

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  Lovely, Looks, Stories

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• From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . 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.

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  Self, Mazes, Torches

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• The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

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  Innocence, Banquets, Endure

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). "Dinero y clase en América: Notas y Observaciones sobre la Religión Civil"

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Perfect, United States

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• I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.

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  Distance, Reflection, Mirrors

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