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«Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.»
Author: Gay Talese | About: Journalism | Keywords: Nemesis, normality, restless, spectacle, wart
«He must be a chaser of wild geese, as well as of wild ducks. He must be prepared to make a public spectacle of himself.»
«It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.»
«I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.»
Author: Roman Polanski (Actor, Film Director) | About: Movies | Keywords: spectacle
«An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.»
«A spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: spectacle
«One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.»
«If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.»
«A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | Keywords: spectacle
«A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.»

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