Jennifer Stone famous quotes

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Effort #World #Lines

History repeats herself.
-- Jennifer Stone

#History #Repeating History

Hope is a dream deferred.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Dream #Hope

One parody is worth a thousand polemics ...
-- Jennifer Stone

#Humor #Parody #Polemics

Integrity pays, but not in cash.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Integrity #Cash #Pay

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Mother #Tissues #Scar

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Knowledge #Connections #Done

If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Knowledge #Reality #People

ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.
-- Jennifer Stone

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Media #Mind #Literature

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.
-- Jennifer Stone

#School #Dark #Rope

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Loneliness #Married

Longing is all that lasts.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Lasts #Longing

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Men #Stopping #He Man

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Television #Shapes #Tvs

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Real #Law #Ideas

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Greed #Grace #Culture

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Feelings #Use #Speech

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Hurt #Thinking #Agony

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Summertime #Mixing #Dresses

We do what we can. The results are none of our business.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Results #Ability

I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Voice #Focus #Acting

I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Brother #Different #Older Brother

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Religious #Jobs #Wings

High school was great when it ended.
-- Jennifer Stone

#School #High School #Adolescence

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Real #Television #Tvs

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Watches #Growing #Aging

Consumerism is our national religion.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Consumerism

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Profound #Tragedy #Comedy

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Clever #Sin #Accused

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Suicide #Children #Tails

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Cat #Cities #Sophisticated

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Technology #Mind #Suffering

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Art #Believe #Morality

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Lying #Writing #Heart

It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Country #Children #Artist

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Capacity #Humans

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Mother #Father #Eye

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Pain #Two #Littles

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Eye #Romance #Use

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Art #Mirrors #Culture

Misogyny is the death of the heart.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Heart #Misogyny

Love is all there's time for.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Love Is

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Return #Alcoholism

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Technology #Faster #Evolve

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Style #Speech #Who You Are

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Movie #Favors #Arguing

Opinion is the death of knowledge.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Opinion

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Reality #Light #Perception

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Passion #Fire #Poetry

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!
-- Jennifer Stone

#Writing #Being In Love #Luxury

For a poet, style is the only morality.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Poetry #Style #Morality

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Heart #Secret #News

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Self #Rehearsal

I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Thinking #Self #Should

sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Sex #Sandwiches

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Sex #Biblical #Views

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Light #Sorrow #Rubbish

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Movie #Taken #Mood