Jennifer Stone Quotes

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All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

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I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

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Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

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A new era must become literate in visual images, otherwise we will not know what we know, we will not be able to put into words the feelings aroused by images of Rambo, of Raquel Welch, or Ronald Reagan.

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What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

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There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

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Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights — literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

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Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

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In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

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It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

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I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

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Married was the loneliest I got — being without the one you're with.

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Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

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Love, like poetry, is a kind of homesickness,
the kind which made medieval monks
sleep in their coffins.

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Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

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The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

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Writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

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Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

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Movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

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We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

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Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk — depends where the light hits.

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The Irish never listen
We hear everything
But we wouldn't be caught dead
Listening.

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If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

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As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

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If it's more work to read it
than it was to write it
burn it.

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Why are we poets? Because we can
not sing, that is why.

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Technology in our time is a kind of theology... a deus ex machina whose omnipresence proves its omnipotence, deifies its voice in our lives.

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Today painting is about paint. Music is about sound. But words still cling to something very old. Like religiosity, language has its seat in the old brain, in the reptilian brain stem of early man.

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A time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

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Sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.

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