"In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art."

-- Edward Jay Epstein

#Art Quotes #America Quotes #Hollywood Quotes

“I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.”
“Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.”
“I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.”
“You donâ€™t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.”
“I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.”

Source : "A Year in the Maine Woods". Book by Bernd Heinrich, 1995.
“Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.”
“To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, p.225, Faber & Faber
“If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.”

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