An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Carl William Brown



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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON SOPHISTICATION

 

 

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

 

Christopher Hampton (1946-, British playwright)

 

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

 

Norman Mailer (1923-, American author)

 

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed -- but never the husband).

 

James Thurber (1894-1961, American humorist, illustrator)

 

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