Saul Friedlander Quotes

#1. One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

Saul Friedlander

#2. Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Bill Gates

#3. Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine.

Cheryl Strayed

#4. Perhaps the essence of tradition, it's ultimate justification, is to comfort, to bring a small measure of dreams, a brief instance of illusion, to a moment when every real avenue of escape is cut off, when there is no longer any recourse.

Saul Friedlander

#5. I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

Saul Friedlander

#7. Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

Saul Friedlander

#8. I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I'm doing the best I can.

Billy Gardell

#9. Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

Buddy Guy