Quote
I came across a quote today that I thought was interesting. Sometimes quotes are just interesting to me because I'm unsure of how the whole process of something becoming a quote happens... Like-- what is the definition of a good quote?
My first guess would be that it needs to be 1) relatively short and 2) expresses something without need of context. But many famous quotes need context. They simply evoke a context.
I have to be missing something, because surely a quote needs more than to be relatively short for it to be good.
REGARDLESS of this dilemma, the quote I came across today was:
"There is no such thing as autobiography. There is only art and lies."-- by Jeanette Winterson.
Some people have a very low opinion of art.
My first guess would be that it needs to be 1) relatively short and 2) expresses something without need of context. But many famous quotes need context. They simply evoke a context.
I have to be missing something, because surely a quote needs more than to be relatively short for it to be good.
REGARDLESS of this dilemma, the quote I came across today was:
"There is no such thing as autobiography. There is only art and lies."-- by Jeanette Winterson.
Some people have a very low opinion of art.
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." C.S. Lewis
Obvious, right? True, right? But it's an obvious truth with a twist that keeps it interesting.
I think that quotes are memorable (thus, short) truths with pizazz. But sometimes they are neither true nor interesting so where does that leave us?
K
Yes.
I am old enough now that I should know better than to look for universal truths.
(Though I have to disagree with C.S. Lewis that philosophy has no survival value.)
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