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• Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

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  Technology, Faster, Evolve

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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

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  Style, Speech, Who You Are

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• I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

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  Mother, Father, Eye

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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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  Profound, Tragedy, Comedy

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

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  Cat, Cities, Sophisticated

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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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  Suicide, Children, Tails

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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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  Clever, Sin, Accused

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• Consumerism is our national religion.

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  Consumerism

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

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  Feelings, Use, Speech

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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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  Technology, Mind, Suffering

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• I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

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  Art, Believe, Morality

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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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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  Watches, Growing, Aging

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

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  Real, Television, Tvs

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• High school was great when it ended.

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  School, High School, Adolescence

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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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  Religious, Jobs, Wings

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• For a poet, style is the only morality.

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  Poetry, Style, Morality

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• Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

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  Heart, Secret, News

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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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  Light, Sorrow, Rubbish

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

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  Self, Rehearsal

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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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  Sex, Biblical, Views

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

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  Thinking, Self, Should

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

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  Sex, Sandwiches

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

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  Television, Shapes, Tvs

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

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  Real, Law Courts, Ideas

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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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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  Effort, World, Lines

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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