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Quotes from Within the Context of No Context — George W. S. Trow

1943–2006 United States

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The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

Within the Context of No Context (1980)

Celebrities have an intimate life and a life in the grid of two hundred million. For them, there is no distance between the two grids of American life. Of all Americans, only they are complete.

Within the Context of No Context (1980)

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

Within the Context of No Context (1980)

Wonder was the grace of the country.

Within the Context of No Context (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George W. S. Trow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.