"Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America."

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Source : "Hard Sell" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

John Lahr

#Spiritual Quotes #White Quotes #America Quotes

“If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.”
“I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.”
“People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.”

Source : "A Double Take on Early Christianity". Interview with Mike Aquilina, touchstonemag.com.
“I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.”
“I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.”
“Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.”
“Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect”

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.37, University of Chicago Press
“After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.”

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