When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
~ Milan Kundera
Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man’s land between the various established fields.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
~ Eric Hoffer
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An editor—especially a brilliant one, as I’ve been lucky to have—pushes against your ideas, hones your writing, demands that you express yourself with the utmost clarity.
~ Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic
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It is, after all, unlikely that Rush Limbaugh always feels as jaunty and confident as he seems on the air, or that Howard Stern really is deeply fascinated by porn starlets every waking minute of the day. But a host’s persona is not the same as outright acting. For the most part, it’s probably more like the way we are all slightly different with some people than we are with others.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Only a country’s most vital interests justify its embarking on war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.
~ Omar Bradley
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As soon as you cast an issue exclusively in terms of identity you invite your adversary to do the same.
~ Mark Lilla
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Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off.
~ Haruki Murakami
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust
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