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If you ask me, I think Jerry Springer destroyed the public image of the USA. I mean up to early in the nineties I still imagined it like it was presented in hollywoodfilms and stuff. But then, early in the 90's they started broadcasting that freakshow in the Netherlands, and that new idea of entertainment, where you put the biggest morons you can find on screen so you can watch it and feel superior. Later on, politics also discovered the same formula. We want politicians we feel superior to. The very idea of anything being 'better' or 'higher' than us makes people extremely uncomfortable. ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#imagination

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#leisure #imagination

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine. ↗

— Storm Constantine

#history #judgement #imagination

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be. ↗

— Roméo Dallaire

#optimism #imagination

Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. ↗

— John Draper

#depends #duration #feeling #nothing #rate

I´ve read that it´s the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it. ↗

— Jo Nesbø

#harry-hole #jo-nesbø #prey #smell #the-snowman

•"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine." -Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Ch. 37 ↗

— -Charles Dickens

#imagination

I should explain — in view of my last letter, you may find it slightly surprising — that Daphne and I are now bosom friends. That is to say, she seems to think we are; and I do not feel that I know her well enough to dispute it. ↗

— Sarah Caudwell

#humour #friendship

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. ↗

— Mark Twain

#dogs #heaven #inspirational #man #religion

To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy, even if the privacy is my own. Listening to music,...is finally the most inward of acts--so inward that even language, even the language of thought, can come to seem intrusive...After all these procedures the unbreachable mysteriousness of music remains intact. The book can never be more than an interruption. Afterward, the listening begins again, to generate, in turn, other and completely different books. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#listening #music #philosophy #imagination