Andrew Goodman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.
Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush.
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

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