Jennifer Stone Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

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

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

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

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

Misogyny is the death of the heart.

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

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

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

Consumerism is our national religion.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

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

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.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

Love is all there's time for.

Longing is all that lasts.

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

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

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.

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

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.

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

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

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

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.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

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.

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.

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.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

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

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

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.

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

High school was great when it ended.

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