"What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false."

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Source : Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.50, Verso

Guy Debord

#Taste Quotes #Genuine Quotes #Eliminating Quotes

“A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.”

Source : "The Essentials: Douglas Sirk", www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2013.
“I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through,”
“The Moment You Stop Making Mistakes Is The Moment You Stop Learning”
“I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.”

Source : "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.
“Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.”
“He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.”
“I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.”
“When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.”

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