I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Andy WarholRead
When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on how the introduction of television can lead to a decline in personal connections with others.
Andy Warhol's quote highlights the transformative impact of technology, particularly television, on human relationships. It suggests that the allure and distraction of TV can diminish the importance of directly connecting with people, as individuals may become more absorbed in the content being broadcast than in fostering meaningful relationships with those around them.
In practice
In a discussion about the impact of technology on social interactions during a family gathering.
I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.
I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.
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