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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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New York City
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Louis Terkel
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All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
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At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.
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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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I find labels liberal and conservative of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
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We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
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I'm not a Luddite completely I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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