The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.
Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?
The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.