"The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end."

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Source : Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.19, Beacon Press

Clement Greenberg

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“Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.”
“[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.”
“Now I know what the atom looks like.”

Source : "Rutherford, Simple Genius". Book by David Wilson, 1983.
“America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.”
“I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.”
“Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right. Better make certain that you've got something to be sincere about and with.”

Source : Tom Driberg (1949). “Colonnade: 1937-1947”, London, Pilot Press [1949]
“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.7, Macmillan
“Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.”

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