George W. S. Trow quotes
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“A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.”
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“The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.”
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“For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.”
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“Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.”
-- George W. S. TrowSource : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.119, Atlantic Monthly Press
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“It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.”
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“I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.”
-- George W. S. TrowSource : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.9, Atlantic Monthly Press
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“What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.”
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“The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.”
-- George W. S. TrowSource : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.82, Atlantic Monthly Press
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“The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.”
-- George W. S. TrowSource : "Within the Context of No Context". Book by George W. S. Trow, 1980.
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“The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.”
-- George W. S. TrowSource : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.44, Atlantic Monthly Press
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