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

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes

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Class
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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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Society
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. – Roland Barthes

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Books
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Other Quotes from
Interviews
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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

My opposition To Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. – James Thurber

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Interviews

It is not every question that deserves an answer. – Publilius Syrus

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Interviews

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. – Oscar Wilde

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Interviews

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