"Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers."

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Sinclair Lewis

#Thinking Quotes #Romance Quotes #Fine Quotes

“contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.”
“All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.”
“I've always made music that was representative of real life.”
“Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.”

Source : De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy (2013). “Conversations on Cinema”, p.136, Luigi Pellegrini Editore
“We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.”
“The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.”
“My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.”
“If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.”

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