#vicarious

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#else #experience #fantasy #game #genre

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#journalist #live #lot #other #people

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#character #come #course #during #feel

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ↗

— George Santayana

#endow #experience #immortality #lend #memory

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. ↗

— Lee Child

#pleasure #thrillers #vicarious

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#car #experience #forget #having #hours

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do. ↗

— Mother Jones

#career #cross #early #i #labor

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#great #relief #vicariously #worst

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#adventure #audience #hollywood #movement #movies