"In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it."

-- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

#Reality Quotes #Order Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.”
“The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.”

Source : Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”
“All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.”
“Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.”
“I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.”
“That tag -Â underwear model -Â I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing -Â underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes,”
“You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.”
“Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll see writers that start off telling black stories, but later branch out into other material. People say they "sell out." No, they evolve as writers.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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