There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

Alan Hollinghurst
There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism
There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism
There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism
There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism
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There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism. The attraction of conservatives is to the point. They are interested in being right, not in being beautiful. They are drawn to the simple, not the complex.

What they have in mind is the direct statement of things, not beauty. They are drawn to certainties, not to suppositions. The beauty of the life they are proposing is that it is so obviously true that no one can doubt it.

Source: The Line Of Beauty

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