Whitechapel Quotes

• That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

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  Nan Goldin

  Wall   Ideas   Working Together  

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

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  Willa Cather

  Breathing   Cities   This Generation  

  "Willa Cather in Europe". Book by Willa Cather, 1956.

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• Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

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  William Booth

  Food   Cooking   Would Be  

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

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  Edwin Black

  Teenager   Asking   London  

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• I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

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  Thomas Huxley

  Pigeons   Shooting   Rats  

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

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  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart   Years   Luxury  

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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