"When friends and lovers die and your world……" — Bruce Jackson
"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."
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36 Quotes by Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson has 36 quotes on this site.
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and…
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films…
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First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring…
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be…
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the…
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose…
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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More Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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