7 Quotes Tagged: camp

Again, it was proposed that we should go up the mountains and make our camps there.

Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.

There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.

The connoisseur of Camp has found more ingenious pleasures. Not in Latin poetry and rare wines and velvet jackets, but in the coarsest, commonest pleasures, in the arts of the masses.

Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.

Time liberates the work of art from moral relevance, delivering it over to the Camp sensibility . . . Another effect: time contracts the sphere of banality. (Banality is, strictly speaking, always a category of the contemporary.) What was banal can, with the passage of time, become fantastic.

What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.