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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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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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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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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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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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It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

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Country, Children, Artist

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

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Pain, Two, Littles

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... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

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Eye, Romance, Use

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

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Capacity, Humans, Human Beings

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As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

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Art, Mirrors, Culture

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

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Misogyny is the death of the heart.

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Heart, Misogyny

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

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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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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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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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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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Integrity pays, but not in cash.

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Integrity, Cash, Pay

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

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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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Knowledge, Connections, Done

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

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ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.

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Has Beens

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When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

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School, Dark, Rope

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married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

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Loneliness, Married

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like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

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Mother, Tissues, Scar

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Born: February 12, 1993
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