Hans Magnus Enzensberger quotes
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“Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something”
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“Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.”
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“I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition.”
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“A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!”
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“Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.”
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“The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.”
-- Hans Magnus EnzensbergerSource : Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1982). “Critical Essays: Hans Magnus Enzensberger”, p.74, A&C Black
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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
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Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey
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