"What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That canâ€™t be mass marketed."

-- Claire Vaye Watkins

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“Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.”
“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.”
“We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we would pick up the fruits of our struggle and our people's sacrifice.”
“It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.”
“The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan”
“Orthodox Jews often ask you: "Are you an Israeli first, or a Jew?" I see no difference between the two. After all, I'm also simultaneously the son of my parents, the husband of my wife and the father of my children.”
“I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.”
“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

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