“How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.” WantFirstsIdeasEndsWholeFeelingsFormDesireStartingSymbolsAbstractConcreteSimplifyStarting PointNameless Author:Emily Carr
“A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.” AblePoliticalDesireLeaderCasesExpressionCompromiseRevolutionaryConcreteProletariatTreacheryPolitical LeadersOpportunism Author:Vladimir Lenin
“America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.” ThinkingMeanRealEndsAmericaDesireFictionTalentConcreteImaginaryGreat Talent Author:Karen Russell