"It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits"

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Source : Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.32, Penguin

Greil Marcus

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“Nothing is as important to muscle growth as good nutrition.”
“In this place of gracious uncertainty, we wait. For the broken places to be brought back together. For the meaning of our suffering to be revealed in his. For the righteous reign of a mighty God, whose goodness we will spend all eternity celebrating. We wait - with open, expectant hearts.”
“I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.”
“Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.”
“Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.”
“The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.”
“I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.”

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