"The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience."

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Source : Lester Bangs (1988). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung”, Anchor Books

Lester Bangs

#Reality Quotes #Sin Quotes #Contempt Quotes

“When you're (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there's no other way to preserve it.”
“Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!”
“Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!”
“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”
“The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.”

Source : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.117, Penguin
“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”
“There's no such thing as altruism.”
“What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.”

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