Sean Wilentz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.
-- Sean Wilentz

#Reading #Kids #Library
I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.
-- Sean Wilentz

#Thinking #Space #Trying
One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.
-- Sean Wilentz

#Writing #Trying #Together
Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.
-- Sean Wilentz

#Winning #Political #Winning And Losing
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.
-- Sean Wilentz

#Light #Giving #Historical
To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.
-- Sean Wilentz

#Poverty #Caught #Parasites

You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Sean Wilentz famous quotes

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