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“There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.”

“To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.”

Definitions Decadence

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”

Courses Nations Wave Seeds Carrie Anarchy Humane Utopia Decadence Trough

Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.”

Next Civilization Decadence Epoch Manure

Author:Cyril Connolly

“The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.”

Culture Next Goal Civilization Constant Corruption Factors Luxury Superstitions Decay Skepticism Weariness Decadence Epoch Manure

Author:Cyril Connolly

“I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.”

Class Substitutes Decadence Sophistication

Book:Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats

Source: Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats

“In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.”

Men States Moments Humanity Found Nations Exceptional Deficiency Decadence Nigeria Independence

Author:Augusto Roa Bastos

“Decadence is wonderful.”

Wonderful Decadence

Author:Jack L. Chalker

“Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.”

States Individual Interest Lifestyle Luxury Neglect Refinement Decadence Forerunners

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.”

Stories Film Sex Study Late Hollywood Twenties Affair Sunset Worn Depressing Decadence Uncompromising Hollywood Movies Boulevard Methodical Sunset Boulevard Late Twenties

Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

Source: Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

“I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.”