"Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory."

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Source : "Miles of Aisles" by L. M. Boyd, www.sfgate.com. April 9, 1995.

Justin Kaplan

#Memories Quotes #Television Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.”
“When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.”
“People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.”

Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.
“Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.”
“When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not always enough to be in good shape.”
“We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.”
“Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.”
“America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost.”

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