Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.
Studs TerkelOrdinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
Studs TerkelCannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
Studs TerkelLast year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.
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