Twentieth-Century Boy Quotes

“New Manifesto: I seek to retain the magical principles of childhood and assert them with an expanding knowledge of the world. I'm trying to become life instead of imitating it. I'm in an impressionable state. Bringing together the diffuse elements of the teen dream. These complex signals tell us who we are and what we might be. Fantasy is reality.”
― Duncan Hannah, Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies

“The nice thing about having a lover is that it makes you think about everything anew; the rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and rather funny. “Inspirations have I none / Just a touch of flaming love…” sings Bowie.”
― Duncan Hannah, Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies

“me (she said). We went back to her rich uncle’s mid-century-modern apartment on West Ninth Street. Super-”
― Duncan Hannah, Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies