#objects

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She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three-year-old self in the dock. As Dr Byford explained, she was really the victim of a vicious, peculiarly female psycological disorder: she felt one thing and did another. She was a stranger to herself. And were they still like that, she wondered - these new girls, this new generation? Did they still feel one thing and do another? Did they still only want to be wanted? Were they still objects of desire instead of - as Howard might put it - desiring subjects? No, she could see no serious change. Still starving themselves, still reading women's magazines that explicitly hate women, still cutting themselves with little knives in places they think can't be seen, still faking their orgasms with men they dislike, still lying to everybody about everything.


Zadie Smith


#generation #objects #women #beauty

The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.


Leah Hager Cohen


#labor #objects #price #society #value

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.


E. M. Forster


#believe #i #i do #in my opinion #internal

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.


Robert Bresson


#born #certain #come #dies #film

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.


Tarja Halonen


#follows #globalization #law #logically #nature

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.


Jean Paul


#darkness #death #dying #evening #like

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.


John Selden


#born #his #learning #man #matter

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.


Lucan


#chooses #ever #friendship #his #loyal

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.


Lester B. Pearson


#objects #politics #skilled #use

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.


Jean Piaget


#call #double #first #i #objects