#lit

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. ↗

— David Antin

#brown #lie #little #man #myth

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. ↗

— Mary Antin

#cans #cooking #eat #father #first

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#changes #concrete #content #emptied #fidelity

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#beginning #cause #determined #existence #fact

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#become #chief #error #infallibility #leader

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#always #appears #certainty #everyday #guise

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them. ↗

— Dario Argento

#cooperative #distributors #film #helpful #little

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul. ↗

— Dario Argento

#characters #each #little #little piece #me

Normality is death. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#normality

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#areas #because #came #emerging #england