Turate Quotes & Sayings

Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly. — Jenny Holzer

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture. — Autre Ne Veut

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air. — Fran Lebowitz

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. — Pablo Picasso

We found that people, when engaged in a mental sprint, may become effectively blind. The authors of The Invisible Gorilla had made the gorilla "invisible" by keeping the observers intensely busy counting passes. — Daniel Kahneman

You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else
an adult, an animal. — Joyce Carol Oates

Communism ... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as this solution. — Peter Singer

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves. — Kathryn Hahn

The icy sword of the square-toed one had cut off his breath and left his hands in a pose of agonizing protest. — Zora Neale Hurston