It’s not unfun, and it’s better than nothing, but it still ain’t the real thing.

Harmon Cooper, The Feedback Loop

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Consider also:

  1. “If only a man could found a ‘Famous Authors Film Producing Company’ and give the authors a fair chance and a free hand, and then employ real artists for the costumes,–a real tailor for the men’s clothes;–real decorators for the indoor sets; real ladies to look after the manners of the actors, and real architects to design the houses, he would be able to take up the whole of Liberty Loan out of his first year’s profits.”
  2. “Where does he live?” “What does he eat?” And, “If he’s invisible, how does one know he’s real?”
  3. “We’ve been in place forever. Look around. Real estate, water rights, oil, cheap labor—all of that’s ours, it’s always been ours. And you, at the end of the day what are you?”
  4. “like wine, grass, home-baked bread, a real nourishment for body and soul”
  5. “A Gresham’s Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real”