“The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.”
John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 92
“Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible.”
Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 3.
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