“The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.” WorldRealityPovertySacrificeComfortableStandardsLogicRelationPropertyRespectabilityShabbyGentility Book:Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties Source: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
“It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.” PeopleValuesUniversalGrantedRespectability Author:Kenneth Lee Pike