"I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me."

-- Chuck Klosterman

#Care Quotes #Stranger Quotes #I Care Quotes

“I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.”
“I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.”
“The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire”

Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan
“Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.”
“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else â€¦ you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”
“One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different forms in his own way of, more or less, formlessness. He was also a poet who could be - he was a love poet, he was a poet of the natural order and he was also a political poet.”
“The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.”
“Because hereâ€™s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.”

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