"In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied."

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Source : John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

Thomas Frank

#Hipster Quotes #Teenager Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Choose life â€¦ I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when youâ€™ve got heroin?”
“Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.19, New Directions Publishing
“[A fan] said, 'What can I do to get your attention?' I was like 'Um, just take your clothes off.' She stood there and frantically started taking her clothes off and got dragged out of the room by security.”
“I am going to do everything I can to clear my name.”
“In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.”
“When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.”
“The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls.”
“Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.”

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