"The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit."

-- Jeremy Seabrook

#Commitment Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Desire Quotes

“There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.”
“I'd always read a lot about rock 'n' roll growing up, but the first real thing I set out to do was become an English professor. Even so, I always hoped in some way or another that I would get to write about music in a popular - non-academic - format.”

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“I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.”
“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”
“I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!”
“Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.”
“Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.”
“If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.”

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