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The family is the American fascism.
Paul Goodman
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Paul Goodman
Age: 60 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 9
Died: 1972
Died: August 2
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The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
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It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)
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Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!
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Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
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The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish belonging, although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.
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Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
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Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.
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We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.
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The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.
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What the devil to do with the sentence Who the devil does he think he's fooling? You can't write Whom the devil- .
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