Joyelle McSweeney quotes
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“My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.”
-- Joyelle McSweeneySource : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.
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“I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what it can do, has been conditioned by my immersion in Catholic culture, ritual, and art since my earliest days. Catholicism seeped into me through every pore. Catholicism is about seeping and pores!”
-- Joyelle McSweeneySource : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.
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“The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.”
-- Joyelle McSweeneySource : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.
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“The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable.”
-- Joyelle McSweeneySource : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.
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“You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.”
-- Joyelle McSweeneySource : Joyelle McSweeney (2007). “Flet: A Novel”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“There's a little bit of magic in every box!”
Source : Jeramey Kraatz, Adam Rex, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Tim Green (2012). “Class Acts Kids' Ebook Sampler”, p.73, Harper Collins
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“To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.”
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Source : "The Manipulator" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2004.
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