Geoffrey Nunberg Quotes

• When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  Girl, Fashion, Looks

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• Few people become assholes reluctantly.

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  People

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

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• 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

  Book, Two, Democracy

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

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• When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  World, Endure, Correlation

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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

  Writing, Italian, Use

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