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Quote by Roland Barthes
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of tro

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. – Roland Barthes

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Pleasure
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes

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Society
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

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Other Quotes from
Interviews
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The best interviews — like the best biographies — should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. – Lynn Barber

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Interviews

Im notorious for giving a bad interview. Im an actor and I cant help but feel Im boring when Im on as myself. – Rock Hudson

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Interviews

The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it. – Serge Daney

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Interviews

It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Interviews

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As long as the world is turning and spinning, were gonna be dizzy and were gonna make mistakes. – Mel Brooks

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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. – Josh Billings

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The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didnt even own a belt. – Paul Lynde

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