"I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage...it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to."

-- Roy Orbison

#Firsts Quotes #Dallas Quotes #Culture Quotes

“When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. I take it no less seriously than the band I was in for 15 years; it's just a new place that I'm in. I'm in the Gutter Twins right now and that's what I am. But if I'm a Twilight Singer next year, it will be with no less passion.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.”
“I'm try-sexual. I try anything that's sexual.”
“A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.”

Source : "Jim Brown: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2, 2008.
“Those that are little, little things suit.”
“Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.”
“They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.”
“I am freedom and I will eat your heart”

Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2015). “Six-Gun Snow White”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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