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"The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee."

"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."

"One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."

"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."

"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."

"We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News."

"IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle."

"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."


"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."


"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."


"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."


"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."


"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
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