Pure Innocent Fun Quotes

“Morally dubious people make great art all the time. Justin Timberlake’s Justified is a great album, for instance.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“It rolls off the tongue and made you feel the same kind of sexy as the Olsen twins when they're whispering "prune" while posing for a photograph.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“In Legally Blonde, Elle Woods refers to Cosmopolitan magazine as the Bible, but to people who remember quotes from early-aughts movies like that, pop-culture obsessives who’ve gone on to make their career hosting podcasts and living out their adolescent fantasies of being a commentator on VH1’s Best Week Ever, Entertainment Weekly was the Bible.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“The gift of a good high school English teacher is that their wholehearted earnestness is often enough to make you repent your teenage nihilism.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“you’re a gay millennial man, then you were obsessed with either Disney or dinosaurs. So while I loved Disney films, I loved dinosaurs.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“I was officially gay, but I was also an idiot.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“She says, "Accepting someone as they are may mean also that you have to accept that they can't be what you want them to be and I think that is really hard for us. We want to make people be what we want them to be.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays

“Most people are not Carries. They are Mirandas or Charlottes, people who have a lot of rules that prevent them from finding love but eventually meet the right person and all those rules are thrown out the window.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays