Victor Turner quotes
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“Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise”
-- Victor TurnerSource : Victor Witter Turner (1967). “The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual”, p.97, Cornell University Press
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“Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.”
-- Victor TurnerSource : Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers
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“The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.”
-- Victor Turner
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”
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“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
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“In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'”
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“We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.”
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