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“Oh, let everything pass and be forgotten—and again in two hundred years’ time an ambitious failure will vent his frustration on the simpletons dreaming of a good life (that is if there does not come my kingdom, where everyone keeps to himself and there is no equality and no authorities—but if you don’t want it, I don’t insist and don’t care).”
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“Mass movements are always so unhip. That’s what was great about punk. It was an antimovement, because there was knowledge there from the very beginning that with mass appeal comes all those tedious folks who need to be told what to think. Hip can never be a mass movement. And culturally, the gay liberation movement and all the rest of the movements were the beginning of political correctness, which was just fascism to us. Real fascism. More rules.”
― Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
― Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
“The paper paid tribute to every possible kind of idolatry and spat at truth. According to the editors, if the voters would only choose the President they recommended, and put into effect this or the other reform, all would be right with the world.
Excerpt From: Isaac Bashevis Singer. “The Penitent.” iBooks.”
― The Penitent
Excerpt From: Isaac Bashevis Singer. “The Penitent.” iBooks.”
― The Penitent
“Meanwhile, ominously, the education denied them now proceeded, as enough of them saw through to how deep, how empty was their ignorance.”
― Vineland
― Vineland
“Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form—it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was okay to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage.”
― Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
― Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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