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Randall Jarrell once said, "The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks".
(As yet another great critic, Randall Jarrell, once said, in a golden age people go around complaining about how yellow everything looks).
The difference is, instead of finding the desire within them to create positive change, they would go around complaining about the injustice of it without doing a single thing to change it.
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According to one memo, Shores went around complaining that the "whole thing's about a bunch of niggers".
No turtles ever went around complaining that there is no profit in book publishing... Turtles do not work day & night to perfect explosive devices that wipe out Pacific islands and eventually render turtles sexually impotent.
The public's understanding takes the form of a joke: A fish falls into a vat of soybean sauce, and goes around complaining about how awful the environment is.
H. L. Mencken, on the other hand, was a journalist, and so his opinions stand naked before us: his condemnation of democracy, his admiration for Germany (he opposed American entry into both world wars), his loathing of all idealists and reformers, including those "professional kikes" who in the thirties went around complaining that Adolf Hitler wasn't being nice to the Jews.
Only Jane's brother, Robin, was allowed a special dispensation, because he was studying to get into Oxford — it was all right for him to have his head stuck in a book all day and to go around scowling, complaining that the sun gave him headaches.
Even if you're feeling down in the dumps, you shouldn't go around moping, complaining, telling your ten best friends how awful you feel, and looking like you're about to cry.
The New Yorker, July 2 , 1938P. 40 Booking agent complaining because there aren't enough midgets to go around.
By John Held The New Yorker, July 2 , 1938P. 40 Booking agent complaining because there aren't enough midgets to go around.
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