Cesare Pavese Quotes

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

I think the United States is way behind the times.

If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

A fusty nut with no kernel.

You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

If a term becomes too popular, its irritant value is ramped up. The impulse is then to replace it with something else.

. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .

He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

Remote and ineffectual don.

The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.

But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come.