#cult

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#everything #inclusion #naive #obsession #popular

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#computer #difficult #read #very #your

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#case #comes #culture #imitation #immediately

There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One. ↗

— Emerson Fittipaldi

#brazil #difficult #does #end #felipe

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution. ↗

— Charles Bowen

#constitution #culture #knowledge #more #pop

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. ↗

— Bill Condon

#get #kinsey #religion #rid #scientifically

Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some severe mental disorder. But I believe it is true. After all, how are we to know what things there are on earth? Strange monstrosities still exist, and foul, incredible perversions. Every war, each new geographical or scientific discovery, brings to light some new bit of ghastly evidence that the world is not altogether the same place we fondly imagine it to be. Sometimes peculiar incidents occur which hint of utter madness. How can we be sure that our smug conceptions of reality actually exist? To one man in a million dreadful knowledge is revealed, and the rest of us remain mercifully ignorant. There have been travelers who never came back, and research workers who disappeared. Some of those who did return were deemed mad because of what they told, and others sensibly concealed the wisdom that had so horribly been revealed. Blind as we are, we know a little of what lurks beneath our normal life. There have been tales of sea serpents and creatures of the deep; legends of dwarfs and giants; records of queer medical horrors and unnatural births. Stunted nightmares of men's personalities have blossomed into being under the awful stimulus of war, or pestilence, or famine. There have been cannibals, necrophiles, and ghouls; loathsome rites of worship and sacrifice; maniacal murders, and blasphemous crimes. When I think, then, of what I saw and heard, and compare it with certain other grotesque and unbelievable authenticities, I begin to fear for my reason. ("The Mannikin") ↗

— Robert Bloch

#occult #paranormal #rationalism-intellect #rationality #supernatural

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#always #audience #being #challenge #character

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#become #celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #did