Famous quotes containing the words point, arena and/or high:
“The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to the serious. One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“... often the empowering strategies we use in the arena of love and friendship are immediately dropped when we come into the arena of politicized differencewhen in fact some of those strategies are useful and necessary.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)