“Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.” FacesMemoriesIdentityUniqueClaimsOneselfShrinksCatching Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals.” KindMayDoeCharacterLyingCommonQualityObjectsTasteUniqueClaimsOriginalsConsumersExploitsDeceptiveAvailabilityElitistKitschInaccessibleRarityForgery Author:Matei Calinescu
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.” IfsThinkingWorldLifeTwoSocialVoiceAnswersAliveEqualUniqueImportanceClaimsStriveComplicatedBillionsIntense Book:Atonement Source: Atonement
“The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do not claim that the reproducible by itself is more important than the unique. But I do claim that the unique exceeds the treatment by scientific method. Indeed it is the aim of this method to find and test natural laws.” KindImportantLawScienceNaturalParticularUniqueConcernedTestsScientistClaimsAimMethodTreatmentExceedNatural LawScientific Method Author:Wolfgang Pauli