"My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book."

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Jessa Crispin

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“It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline.”

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“I think this kind of bohemianism doesn't really exist in the New York city anymore - the bohemianism that I was trying to record in Carnegie Hall that completely defined our culture. The people who lived and worked in Carnegie Hall studios, they defined our culture in music, dance, theater, fashion, illustration. It wasn't so much nostalgic as a celebration of that and an acknowledgment of that and saying that it's really important. And it's actually something that is a loss for the city, I think.”
“I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!”
“Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.”
“Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.”
“I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.”
“Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.”
“No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.”

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