Core Material

Famous quotes containing the words core and/or material:

“Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.”
—John Guare (b. 1938)

“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)