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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 drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
consequence, drunkenness, intention, leisurely, philter, spinning
«I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
discourse, discourses, discoursing, engender, Engendered, engendering, engenders, guilt, hence, recipient, recipients, The Discourses
«There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.»
«For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.»
«What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.»
«The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!»
«I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates t»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
appropriates, cars, cathedrals, conceived, consumed, era, Gothic, population, usage
«All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
ideology, machines, official, political ideology, political institutions, political machine, popular song, Popular songs, repeating, stereotype, stereotyped
«To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
clearer, confidences, emphasizes, endow, fleshly, miraculous, pajamas, singularity, underdone, white wine
«New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.»
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