The Lost Arts of Modern Civilization Quotes

“Without the real enjoyment afforded by hospitality, mindless entertainment fills the vacuum, substituting fantasy for reality. The sophisticated replaces the simple, and the exotic and the expensive become the desirable sources of pleasure.”
― Mitchell Kalpakgian, The Lost Arts of Modern Civilization: How to Taste and See the Abundance of Life

“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty or insecurity, but simply its bareness, dinginess, its listlessness.”
― Mitchell Kalpakgian, The Lost Arts of Modern Civilization: How to Taste and See the Abundance of Life

“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.” The”
― Mitchell Kalpakgian, The Lost Arts of Modern Civilization: How to Taste and See the Abundance of Life