Alex Tripp

“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”
― Herbert Marcuse

“Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.”
― Herbert Marcuse

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator — a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.”
― Mary Ruefle