"There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue."

-- Rick Moody

#Reading Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Issues Quotes

“If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.”
“I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.”
“With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.”

Source : Henry Mancini (2001). “Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini”, p.185, Cooper Square Press
“Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.”

Source : Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.1, HarperCollins
“You can say, "I don't believe in anything," but you do because you believe in nothing. That is your belief system.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.”
“What can you say about a guy who lets himself be saddled with a baby when he's thirty-five and losing his hair? Love? Forget about that till you're past seventy, and by then the parts will have stopped working anyway.”
“Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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