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The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #becomes #child #demand #familiar

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films. ↗

— John Lasseter

#amazed #beautiful #films #heart #how

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference. ↗

— Mike Lee

#difference #distinction #me #money #out

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#account #being #certain #every #existence

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#beautiful #done #fine #firm #fit

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. ↗

— James Laughlin

#book #everything #i #i do #orchestra

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small. ↗

— James Laughlin

#because #book #cases #close #close relationship

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them. ↗

— James Laughlin

#authors #because #come #correspondence #firm

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them. ↗

— Henri Laurens

#aim #could #form #forms #full

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#another #another way #contingent #embodied #events