"Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space."

-- Matei Calinescu

#Reality Quotes #Space Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.”
“In the kingdom of bang and blab.”
“I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.”
“How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?”
“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”
“It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.”
“There is one thing that I feel I still have to do and that is gain revenge over Lennox Lewis. If Lewis came back I would find the motivation to return to boxing and beat him.”
“I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to solve this problem.”

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