"Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall."

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Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

Max Lerner

#Art Quotes #Teenage Quotes #Fall Quotes

“I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.”
“The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.”
“All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.”
“I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.”
“Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated â€¦ save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem â€¦ but a miracle â€¦ that the thoughts of living men â€¦ should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?”
“I have a nice family and I'm well rounded.”
“I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.”

Source : "Lying with the best of them" by Ralph Steadman, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.
“People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in Europe.”

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