"What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination."

-- Edmund White

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“If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.”
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.”
“Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.”
“Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.”
“There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.”
“The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.”
“What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.”
“Itâ€™s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.”

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