“Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.” PeopleWorldFacesSpeakLanguageCommonMagicGroupsScientistDressesStatementsCommon SenseMagicianBreach Author:Terry Pratchett
“I do love horror movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.” MenKindMightGuyGroupsHorrorMembersDressesBlueHalloweenGhouls Author:Christopher Mintz-Plasse
“I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.” YearsTwoPlayFightingReligiousGroupsCallingDressesNervousComedianFancyPlusContestsMagicianBreakdownManiacsNervous Breakdown Author:Alan Bleasdale
“Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.” KindRealSpiritGroupsFashionCrimeIdentityLike YouDressesConformityFascismLike YourselfSuccumbingGroup Identity Author:Simon Doonan
“Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.” IfsWayIdeasDifferentSelfFeelingsIndividualHeardGroupsOvercomingAimDressesUnionsWesternPatternsDisappearSavedContemporaryCustomsFrighteningConformSeparatenessWestern SocietyArt Of Loving Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.” ShowsArtistAudienceVirtueGroupsUniqueTheaterDressesTheatreEveningIdiotRehearsalSelect Book:Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor