"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Ridiculous Quotes #Purity Quotes #Genre Quotes

“Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.”
“You have not learned to live until you have learned to give”
“The breath of liberty is sweet.”

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1870). “Lena Rivers”, p.199, Рипол Классик
“Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.”
“The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press
“Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.”
“In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.”

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