Sarah Churchwell famous quotes

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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#Confused #Passion #Frustration
Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#Challenges #Mind #Might
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgeraldâ€™s contemporaries couldnâ€™t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#Fall #America #Excellence
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on lifeâ€”but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#Art #Order #Revelations
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#People #Want #Entitlement
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#Struggle #Self #Expression
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#Memories #Party #Guests
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#Mistake #Identity #Facts
There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#Sesame Street #Teach #Streets
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
-- Sarah Churchwell

#Racism #Slavery #Way

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