"Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace."

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Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission”, p.160, Random House

Amy Waldman

#Reality Quotes #Editing Quotes #Criminals Quotes

“I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.”
“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.”
“Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.”
“There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.”
“When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.”
“When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.”
“Find things you're passionate about, and find others who are as passionate as you are and will focus on giving you an opportunity to shine and to have your moment where you can be in front of others to show what you can do.”
“Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conversations around translation, or even as two disassociated phenomena that can be brought together to collaborate with more or less success, I think of sound as sense. Sound has its own meaning, and it's one of the many non-semantic dimensions of meaning in language. I want to emphasize is the formal dynamic between language-as-information and language-as-art-material.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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