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The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment. The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.
Howard Dietz
theater
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Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us in... - MORE Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.
Joseph Addison
music | musicians
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Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly- burly of meeti... - MORE Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly- burly of meetings and entertainment.... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.
Svetlana Alliluevya
Russia and the Russians
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. - MORE Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
Hannah Arendt
culture | entertainment
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It is because everything is relative
That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and... - MORE It is because everything is relative
That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and
Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete
Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that
Closes down over all your effort like the moment
Of death
John Ashbery
death | relativeness | wisdom
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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape... - MORE Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony—this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.
Jean Baudrillard
vacations
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A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to ... - MORE A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
George Berkeley
mind, the | liberty | free-thinking
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profi... - MORE Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.
Bertolt Brecht
science | entertainment | art | artists
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In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature... - MORE In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself—as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony—those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a "read," commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.
Joseph Brodsky
poetry | poets
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Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to rea... - MORE Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin.... A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
Neville Cardus
autobiography
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