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"Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work."
"It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness."
"Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it."
"To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it."
"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."
"With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken-formerly it was only the prominent-and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait."
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
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"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."
"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
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