{"id":9761,"date":"2016-07-11T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T00:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=9761"},"modified":"2016-07-11T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T00:07:17","slug":"the-quotable-malcolm-margolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-quotable-malcolm-margolin","title":{"rendered":"The Quotable Malcolm Margolin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9768\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-quotable-malcolm-margolin\/27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z.jpg?fit=525%2C394\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-9768\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z.jpg?resize=620%2C465 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z.jpg?resize=440%2C330 440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/27536683812_ab85f0afe6_z.jpg?w=640 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-176-malcolm-margolin\">podcast with Malcolm Margolin<\/a> featured so many great quotes, I don\u2019t want to limit it to the 2 or 3 I put in the show notes for the episode. So here\u2019s a big ol\u2019 compendium of What Malcolm Said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;For years I&#8217;d been a slave to the in-box. Being out of the loop was a little disconcerting.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What got me into publishing was to attract beautiful women.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;On the outside, I can create things I could never create on the inside.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What I&#8217;m passing on to people is . . . the capacity to have fun. To have a life that you can build around. Not branding, and not the demands of the marketplace, but what you really think and what you want.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dressing Indians up to be perfect victims does them a disservice. What I&#8217;ve tried to do is get beyond the &#8216;dress code&#8217;.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In some ways I feel regret; the irony is that I was so active in preserving other people&#8217;s cultures and languages, but I let mine go.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;As Phil Levine said, &#8216;Why be yourself when with a little bit of effort you can be interesting?'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;One of the biggest changes in the course of my life is the growing dominance of salesmanship in everything we do.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Our culture takes knowledge and structures it around the sense of time. We have history. One thing led to another, and that&#8217;s causality. . . . We know the history of institutions, of genealogies. The Indians had none of that. Time is flat. Indians structured their knowledge around place.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Their whole world was filled with stories, and the stories talked to one another.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m an emotion junkie. If I can go more than a few hours without breaking into tears, it&#8217;s a wasted day.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure I know anything you couldn&#8217;t talk me out of in 5 minutes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I think if there&#8217;s an inscription on my headstone, it should be, &#8216;He was easy to please.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now go <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_176_-_Malcolm_Margolin.mp3\">listen to the podcast<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_17\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9761-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_176_-_Malcolm_Margolin.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_176_-_Malcolm_Margolin.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_176_-_Malcolm_Margolin.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_176_-_Malcolm_Margolin.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=9761-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_176_-_Malcolm_Margolin.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_176_-_Malcolm_Margolin.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s podcast with Malcolm Margolin featured so many great quotes, I don\u2019t want to limit it to the 2 or 3 I put in the show notes for the episode. So here\u2019s a big ol\u2019 compendium of What Malcolm Said: &#8220;For years I&#8217;d been a slave to the in-box. Being out of the loop &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-quotable-malcolm-margolin\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Quotable Malcolm Margolin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4341,4333],"class_list":["post-9761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-heyday-books","tag-malcolm-margolin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-2xr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9759,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-176-malcolm-margolin","url_meta":{"origin":9761,"position":0},"title":"Episode 176 &#8211; Malcolm Margolin","author":"Gil","date":"July 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is one of those Must-Hear episodes of The Virtual Memories Show, people! 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