"Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture."

-- Inga Muscio

#Life Quotes #Book Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.”
“The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.”
“Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.”
“Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.”
“The guys that are out there now likeÂ Calvin JohnsonÂ andÂ Larry FitzgeraldÂ they're making $16 million, $15 million a year, and I'm not looking for anything like that. A lot of that money goes to the quarterback position and rightfully so.”
“It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.”
“I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.”
“There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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