Savage Mind

Famous quotes containing the words savage and/or mind:

    “Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)