James Howard Kunstler Short Quotes

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We all knew the apparatus of justice had dissolved.

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Jesus […] look how we live? I'm practically a serf.

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The essence of politics was to not act on your impulses.

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Could we even pretend the law still existed? Or was it something you made up now, as the occasion required?

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I'd been carrying [my Ruger.41 Magnum] so many days that I had almost forgotten it was there. This was the kind of world we now lived in.

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I had one of those steel thermal mugs you carried everywhere with you as a kind of signifier of how busy, and therefore how important you were.

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Living by the clock was an old habit that died hard. Not much that we did required punctuality, but people still wanted to know what time it was.

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The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

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I remembered Albany […] as just another down-on-its-luck small American city that had sacrificed its vitality to a whirring ring of homogenous suburbs.

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Waterford began its existence as the gateway to the Erie Canal system, the first stretch of which was built to bypass several waterfalls on the Mohawk River.

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We're building our own New Jerusalem up the river. It's a world made by hand, now, one stone at a time, one board at a time, one hope at a time, one soul at a time.

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Few dogs were around anymore. Some had been eaten during the hunger that followed the flu in the spring of that year. People didn't talk about it, it was so demoralizing.

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Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

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We were content to be undisturbed in our our little backwater, Union Grove, Washington County, in a place once called the Empire State, where the Battenkill runs into the Hudson River.

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There's real strangeness in this world of ours. Back in the machine times, there was so much noise front and back, so to speak, it kept us from knowing what lies behind the surface of things.

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