“It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.” IndependenceConventionsUnconventionality Book:Howards End Source: Howards End
“ERNEST FRIEDLANDER: Be quiet! Be quiet! LEO MERCURÉ: Why should we be quiet? You’re making enough row to blast the roof off! Why should you have the monopoly of noise? Why should your pompous moral pretensions be allowed to hurdle across the city without any competition? We’ve all got lungs. Let’s use them! Let’s shriek like mad! Let’s enjoy ourselves!” EnjoymentEnjoy LifePompousUnconventionalPomposityBourgeois SocietyConventionalismPretensionsBohemianismUnconventionalityBabbitt Book:Design for Living Source: Design for Living