"[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith."

-- Michael Stipe

#Horse Quotes #New York Quotes #Order Quotes

“Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.”
“In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.”
“I thought I was actually doing quite well - I was on Jazz FM six days a week. I fancied going to Australia and I had a wonderful experience. It's changed me for the better and it was flattering to win.”
“He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.”

Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.11, Random House
“MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.”
“I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about.”
“When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.”
“I suppose I like to give people something to talk and think about. I can just be the person that kind of put a message in the bottle to see where it ends up.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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