"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Reality Quotes #Media Quotes #Logic Quotes

“My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control.”
“If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.”
“I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.”
“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
“Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.203, The New Press
“There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.”
“I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.”

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