"Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt."

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Source : "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

Susie Orbach

#Criticism Quotes #Today Quotes #Size Quotes

“I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.”

Source : "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.
“I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone”
“When its dark enough you can see the stars.”

Source : "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.
“It needs as much generosity to take as to give.”
“The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.157, Vintage
“Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than project that ponderous responsibility-lest we prefer instead to wallow in a perennial state of powerless, frustrated, furious, victimhood. For what one possesses the power to bring about, one has also the power to limit, Mitigate, counteract, or transmute.”

Source : Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.85, SUNY Press
“My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.”
“It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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