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Roland Barthes has 124 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases…
— Margaret Atwood
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The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood…
— David Foster Wallace
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The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in…
— Brian Reynolds Myers
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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand…
— Wesley Morris
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I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.
— Mike Nichols
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But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
— Leo Ornstein
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Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
— Leila Josefowicz
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Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence…
— Roland Barthes
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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
— Rita Dove
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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires…
— Brian Eno
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I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we…
— Will Self
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