Jennifer Stone Quotes

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

For a poet, style is the only morality.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

High school was great when it ended.

I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

History repeats herself.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

Integrity pays, but not in cash.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Love is all there's time for.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.

I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

Misogyny is the death of the heart.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.