"All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix."

-- Lester Bangs

#Book Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes #Falsification Quotes

“The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.”
“It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.”

Source : Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.37, Paradise Publishing
“Good is not enough. You've got to be great.”
“Man is the creature of circumstances.”

Source : Robert Owen, William Legg (1839). “Report of the Discussion: Between Robert Owen, Esq., and the Rev. Wm. Legg, B.A., which Took Place in the Town Hall, Reading, March 5 & 6, 1839, on Mr. Owen's New Views of Society”, p.34
“Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live”
“Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?”
“From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy.”
“I had judgments about how to have a baby that are not realistic for every woman. So I surrendered, let it go, and was willing to accept the outcome. All I really wanted was a healthy, happy baby.”

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