“Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.” MeanRealityAbleValuesFantasyJudgingDistancePatientNewspapersCuresJournalismPrimitivePsychoanalysisTherapeuticFantasy And Reality Author:Bill Vaughan
“Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.” MenWayWould BeValuesPaperMen And WomenDistanceBraveSettingSettingsPensConsideringUnseenSignalsUnbornNameless Book:The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser Source: The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser
“Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.” WorldWritingIdeasValuesAbilityTakenDistanceSpeakersTransferenceUnboundTime And Distance Author:Arthur M. Jolly
“The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.” PeopleWritingWholeValuesIndividualProcessResultsDistanceSettingSettingsRealms Book:Under My Skin Source: Under My Skin
“I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.” PoliticalSufferingValuesDifficultMoralJudgmentGainsDistanceIndifferenceDetachmentRelativismMalady Author:Pierre L. van den Berghe
“A photographer who wants to see....must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put between yourself and your home. If you do not see what is all around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?....Good seeing doesn't ensure good photographs, but good photographic expression is impossible without it.” IfsWantHomeValuesAbilityImpossibleSeeingExpressionDistancePhotographerPhotographFamiliarAbility To SeeTangier Author:Freeman Patterson