I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp Quotes

“In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.”
― Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

“I think love is sort of a con you play on yourself. I think the whole conception of love is something the previous generation invents to justify having created you. You know I think the real reason children are born is because parents are so bored they have children to amuse themselves. They're so bored they don't have anything else to do so they have a child because that will keep them busy for a while. Then to justify to the kid the reason he exists they tell him there's such a thing as love and that's where you come from because me and your daddy or me and your mommy were in love and that's why you exist. When actually it was because they were bored out of their minds.”
― Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

“it was a crime to take anything too seriously, as oppressed as we felt by the adult and conventional world. All the most serious art is not only sad but hilarious. What other intelligent way to live is there but to laugh about it? The alternative, also respectable, is suicide. But how could you do that? Not only would it betray a woeful lack of humor, but it would keep you from finding out what was going to happen next.”
― Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp