"What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?"

-- John le Carre

#Misery Quotes #These Days Quotes #Journalist Quotes

“Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.”
“The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.152, Routledge
“When I was younger, things came so easily to me. It was just natural.”
“Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.”
“Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity.”
“There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in public.”
“By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.”
“In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery”

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