http://www.quotesstar.com Quotes from the stars! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:10:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shoppin' online for deals on some writable media. I edit Wikipedia. - View Quote Details on Shoppin' online for deals on some writable media. I...The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory. - View Quote Details on The problem about Wikipedia is, ... http://www.quotesstar.com/themes/wikipedia-quotes.html I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers. Sourced"The Risk Taker", profile/interview by Gary ... http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/i/i-guess-i-think-im-227582.html But just because I am a critic of Israeli policy — and in particular the occupation, simply because it is untenable, it creates a border that cannot be defended — that does not mean I believe the U.S. has brought this terrorism on itself because it supports Israel. I believe ... http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/b/but-just-because-i-am-227597.html The charges against most of the people detained in the prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan being nonexistent — the Red Cross reports that 70 to 90 percent of those being held seem to have committed no crime other than simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught ... http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/t/the-charges-against-most-of-227605.html Soldiers now pose, thumbs up, before the atrocities they commit, and send off the pictures to their buddies and family. What is revealed by these photographs is as much the culture of shamelessness as the reigning admiration for unapologetic brutality. Ours is a society in which secrets of private life ... http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/s/soldiers-now-pose-thumbs-up-227603.html Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that can be accepted as part of larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, ... http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/a/americans-are-constantly-extolling-traditions-227627.html The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, ... http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/t/the-need-for-truth-is-227568.html One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling... which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that ... http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/o/one-of-my-oldest-crusades-227576.html Literature is dialogue; responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another. Writers can do something to combat these clichés of our separateness, our difference — for writers are makers, not ... http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/l/literature-is-dialogue-responsiveness-literature-227632.html Not surprisingly, the Serbs are presenting themselves as the victims. (Clinton equals Hitler, etc.) But it is grotesque to equate the casualties inflicted by the NATO bombing with the mayhem inflicted on hundreds of thousands of people in the last eight years by the Serb programs of ethnic cleansing. ... http://www.quotesstar.com/quotes/n/not-surprisingly-the-serbs-are-227590.html