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“If you're going to be a fucking rock star go be one. People don't want to see the guy next door on stage; they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.”
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“I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.”
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“Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.”
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“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.”
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“We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.”
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
― Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
Magic Realism
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Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more
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