"The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing……" — Pierre Schaeffer

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This quote is filed under Distancing Quotes, one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial… — Seth Klarman
• Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road… — Jacqueline Novogratz
• Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that… — Ariel Dorfman
• Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing… — Margaret Thatcher
• I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get… — Jane Siberry
• The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent… — Bernardine Dohrn
• Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing… — Susan Sontag
• Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other. — Leo Buscaglia
• Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They… — Douglas Rushkoff
• Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people… — Paulo Coelho
• I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and,… — Karen Chance
• The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it. — Daniel Pennac

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