"In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled."

-- Don DeLillo

#Country Quotes #Dream Quotes #Men Quotes

“I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.”
“Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.”
“To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.”
“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”

Source : Barbara Hepworth (Dame), Alan Bowness (1967). “Drawings from a sculptor's landscape”
“Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.”
“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”
“I refuse to make uninspired music.”
“Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more like a perspective, an angle of vision, a complicating factor, a questioning presence. I don't sit on the sidelines or pretend to objectivity; and I'm not afraid to stick my neck out or to be revealing and vulnerable.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

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