"You are born modern, you do not become so."

-- Jean Baudrillard

#Modern Quotes #Born Quotes #Modernism Quotes

“An objective without a plan is a dream.”
“We share half our genes with the banana.”
“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.”
“Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.”
“I just try to play make-believe and pretend the world is magical and awesome as much as possible.”

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“Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.”
“Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.”

Source : Fritz Leiber, Fred Gambino (1979). “Ship of Shadows”
“There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.9, Broadview Press

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