“In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.” PeopleSaidHardFactsFilmTurnsMillionsTvsTomorrowOffersProgramAccountsDollarsSeriesLots Of MoneyPackagesMillion DollarsHard ThingsBank Accounts Author:Roone Arledge
“Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.” DoeArtDifferentTurnsTasteOffersJudgmentStandardsOrdinaryArguingCampsAestheticReverseAxesArt And Life Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.” MaySelfWholeLightTurnsSecretWonderOffersQuietPraiseHumbleGladSurrenderChairsAbandonJoyfulEjaculation Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly
“Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation.” CountryStatesTurnsNaturalGenerationsOffersResponseAffairEngagementThievesGiftedPortraitsNigeriaDisenchantedGifted Writers Author:Salman Rushdie