Sarah Churchwell Quotes

• People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

  Sarah Churchwell

  People, Want, Entitlement

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• Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Fall, America, Excellence

  Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Confused, Passion, Frustration

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• Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Art, Order, Revelations

  Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Memories, Party, Guests

  Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

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  Challenges, Mind, Might

  Sarah Churchwell (2005). “The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Struggle, Self, Expression

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• History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Mistake, Identity, Facts

  Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Sesame Street, Teach, Streets

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• Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Racism, Slavery, Way

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