"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."

-- Kathy Acker

#Way Quotes #Censorship Quotes #Bandwagon Quotes

“It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.”

Source : "Expecting Someone Taller". Book by Tom Holt, 1987.
“There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.”
“The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Aunt Ida". "Female Trouble", www.imdb.com. 1974.
“There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.”
“I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.”
“... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.”
“The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.”
“It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.”

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