"The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man."

-- Roger Scruton

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“For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.”
“At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.”
“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.”
“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.”
“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”
“I grew up in front of a TV.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.
“I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and Superman II with Terence Stamp as Zod but I felt it was time to bring the character into the 21st century.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com

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