"Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do."

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Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.165, Transaction Publishers

David Riesman

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“I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.”
“I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done.This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn't just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.”

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“What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.”
“And because there is something they canâ€™t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they canâ€™t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and theyâ€™re scared.”
“Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.”
“If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government.”

Source : John Taylor (2013). “An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States”, p.255, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
“With humor, itâ€™s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.”
“Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.”

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