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“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
“We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he affectionately squeezed my hand.
"oh, take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists."
"Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.”
― Just Kids
"oh, take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists."
"Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.”
― Just Kids
“What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
“I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“- Brother Jimmy, said Joey the Lips. - I'm worried. - About Dean.
- Wha' abou' Dean?
- He told me he's been listening to jazz.
- What's wrong with tha'? Jimmy wanted to know.
- Everything, said Joey the Lips. - Jazz is the antithesis of soul.
- I beg your fuckin' pardon!
- I'll go along with Joey there, said Mickah.
- See, said Joey the Lips. - Soul is the people's music. Ordinary people making music for ordinary people. - Simple music. Any Brother can play it. The Motown sound, it's simple. Thump-thump-thump-thump. - That's straight time. Thump-thump-thump-thump. - See? Soul is democratic, Jimmy. Anyone with a bin lid can play it. - It's the people's music.
- Yeh don't need anny honours in your Inter to play soul, isn't tha' wha' you're gettin' at, Joey?
- That's right, brother Michael.
- Mickah.
- Brother Mickah. That's right. You don't need a doctorate to be a doctor of soul.
- Nice one.
- An' what's wrong with jazz? Jimmy asked.
- Intellectual music, said Joey the Lips. - It's anti-people music. It's abstract.
- It's cold an' emotionless, amn't I righ'? said Mickah.
- You are. - It's got no soul. It is sound for the sake of sound. It has no meaning. - It's musical wanking, Brother.
- Musical wankin', said Mickah. - That's good.
- Here, yeh could play tha' at the Christmas parties.
- Instead o' musical chairs.”
―
- Wha' abou' Dean?
- He told me he's been listening to jazz.
- What's wrong with tha'? Jimmy wanted to know.
- Everything, said Joey the Lips. - Jazz is the antithesis of soul.
- I beg your fuckin' pardon!
- I'll go along with Joey there, said Mickah.
- See, said Joey the Lips. - Soul is the people's music. Ordinary people making music for ordinary people. - Simple music. Any Brother can play it. The Motown sound, it's simple. Thump-thump-thump-thump. - That's straight time. Thump-thump-thump-thump. - See? Soul is democratic, Jimmy. Anyone with a bin lid can play it. - It's the people's music.
- Yeh don't need anny honours in your Inter to play soul, isn't tha' wha' you're gettin' at, Joey?
- That's right, brother Michael.
- Mickah.
- Brother Mickah. That's right. You don't need a doctorate to be a doctor of soul.
- Nice one.
- An' what's wrong with jazz? Jimmy asked.
- Intellectual music, said Joey the Lips. - It's anti-people music. It's abstract.
- It's cold an' emotionless, amn't I righ'? said Mickah.
- You are. - It's got no soul. It is sound for the sake of sound. It has no meaning. - It's musical wanking, Brother.
- Musical wankin', said Mickah. - That's good.
- Here, yeh could play tha' at the Christmas parties.
- Instead o' musical chairs.”
―
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