Jennifer Stone Quotes

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

Longing is all that lasts.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

For a poet, style is the only morality.

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

History repeats herself.

Integrity pays, but not in cash.

Hope is a dream deferred.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Misogyny is the death of the heart.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

Love is all there's time for.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.