"It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture."

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Source : Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

Kim Chernin

#Vision Quotes #Culture Quotes #Outsiders Quotes

“Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.”
“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.”
“It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.”
“So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.”
“The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.”
“When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.”

Source : Ken Follett (2007). “World Without End”, p.826, Penguin
“You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.”
“Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.”

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