Private Copying Collective

Famous quotes containing the words private, copying and/or collective:

    “In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    “We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
    —Richard Louv (20th century)