"Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it."

-- Elmer Rice

#Art Quotes #Reality Quotes #Strikes Quotes

“You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.”
“All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.”
“I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!”
“The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".”
“I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.”
“I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”
“Television â€“ a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.”
“I suppose itâ€™s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. â€œM.A.S.H.â€ comes to mind. So does The Iliad.”

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