"Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish."

-- Thomas Frank

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.”
“With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."”
“The scare quotes burn off like fog.”
“All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.”

Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”
“Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.”

Source : Gershon Legman (1982). “No laughing matter: an analysis of sexual humor”, Indiana Univ Pr
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.”
“Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine... it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants suffering irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, leading to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or gastro-enteritis and so on.”
“I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo”

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