“The fake seen tawdry.”
“The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.”
“All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.”
“I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.”
“... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.”
“Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.”