Dwight Macdonald famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive.
-- Dwight Macdonald

#Simple #Actors #Alive
Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion
-- Dwight Macdonald

#Mean #Able #Conversation
A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.
-- Dwight Macdonald

#People #Foundation #Want
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it...
-- Dwight Macdonald

#War #Character #Rejection
By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.
-- Dwight Macdonald

#Mean #Men #Personality
Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".
-- Dwight Macdonald

#Struggle #May #Way
One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.
-- Dwight Macdonald

#Hero #Demand
Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as a marionette, his one expression an agonized grimace as of wood trying to smile.
-- Dwight Macdonald

#Simple #Actors #Alive

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.

Dwight Macdonald famous quotes

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