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Not who you're looking for? Others named Amateur: person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science i · 1994 film by Hal Hartley · 2018 non-fiction work by Thomas Page McBee · 2018 film by Ryan Koo
“The intellectual's spirit as an amateur can enter and transform the merely professional routine most of us go through into something much more lively and radical; instead of doing what one is supposed to do one can ask why one does it, who benefits from it, how can it reconnect with a personal project and original thoughts.”
“There is no getting around authority and power, and no getting around the intellectual's relationship to them. How does the intellectual address authority: as a professional supplicant or as its unrewarded, amateurish conscience?”
“As a way of maintaining relative intellectual independence, having the attitude of an amateur instead of a professional is a better course.”
“In the end, I am moved by causes and ideas that I can actually choose to support because they conform to values and principles that I believe in.”
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