#is

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructed #conventions #discursive #empirical #fidelity

I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them. ↗

— Katie Crouch

#friendship #love #love-hurts #relationships #sisters

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out. ↗

— Leonid Andreyev

#death #despair #life #death

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#biggest #day #dog #every #every day

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#come #conditions #deeper #defeat #essentially

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#conspiracy #first #first things #found #investigation

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#come #patriotism #some #surpass #tribal

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#been #experience #frequently #i #misrepresented

Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#campaign #consistently #despite #eligible #indicated

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american flag #flag #freedom #history #national