"The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia."

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Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.165, Open Road Media

Walker Percy

#Loss Quotes #Identity Quotes #Age Quotes

“Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.”
“I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific sensations, and so has the film. But there are also problems in which the dividing line is obliterated, or where the two infringe upon each other. More especially, the cinema can fulfill certain promises made by the ancient arts, in the realization of which painting and film become close neighbors and work together.”
“Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.”

Source : "New Jill Scott Swings to Hollywood [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelly L. Carter, www.ebony.com. September 3, 2013.
“The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.”

Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.194, NYU Press
“The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...”

Source : Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons
“If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?”
“Pele should go back to the museum.”
“A false vision was better than none.”

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