"The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality."

-- Susanne Katherina Langer

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“When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.”
“I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.”
“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”

Source : In Newsweek 28 Mar. 1960, p. 89
“Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.”
“I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.”
“Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain”
“I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'”
“Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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