"We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers."

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Source : Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Max Frisch

#Distance Quotes #Eye Quotes #Age Quotes

“As a lover of New York, I hope New York remains as successful as a city, even though the very groups on whom the city depends - like artists - are not finding it easy to stay here. That's what it's been about, really, since the 1980s. You can kind of see that coming in the 1980s even though the rents were ridiculously low compared to what the rents are now.”
“Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.”
“The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.”
“At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.”
“I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.”

Source : Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.
“Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders”
“the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.”
“We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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