Proletarian Literature Quotes & Sayings

I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits. — Jason Priestley

At which Charion Pratt blushed girlishly, to her own furious embarrassment, yet the eye she cast upon the little coxcomb was not unlike that which a certain toad had once cast upon her: for there is never anything but apparent paradox in the choices made by lovers. — Michael Moorcock

Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny) ... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged. — Leonard Maltin

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had. — Joe Manganiello

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs ... — George Orwell

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? — Morley Safer

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. — Mao Zedong

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share. — Charlaine Harris

For anthropologists, even the exotic's not exotic, let alone the everyday. — Tom McCarthy

Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time. — Robin Thicke