Geoffrey Nunberg quotes

Geoffrey Nunberg quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.”
-- Geoffrey Nunberg

Source : Geoffrey Nunberg (2009). “The Years of Talking Dangerously”, p.122, PublicAffairs

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“The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.”
-- Geoffrey Nunberg

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“When the world changes, correlation goes awayâ€¦ Causals are what endure.”
-- Geoffrey Nunberg

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“Few people become assholes reluctantly.”
-- Geoffrey Nunberg

Source : Geoffrey Nunberg (2013). “Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years”, p.163, PublicAffairs

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“When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.”
-- Geoffrey Nunberg

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