"...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real."

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Source : Gisèle Freund (1980). “Photography & Society”

Gisele Freund

#Real Quotes #Hands Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.”
“It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.”
“I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.”
“It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.”
“My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is whatâ€™s important.”
“The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.”

Source : Speech in the Convention Nationale (16 January 1793), Archives Parliamentaires de 1787 à 1860, vol. 57, p. 368, 1900.
“I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.”

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