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Greil Marcus

"Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that."

Source : Greil Marcus (2011). “Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010”, p.17, Faber & Faber

Greil Marcus

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“Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks. Do you know how absolutely exotic it is that you havenâ€™t been corrupted by fashion and pop culture? A month ago I mentioned Ben Stiller, and do you remember how you responded? â€˜Whoâ€™s that?â€™ I loved you all over again.”
“Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.”
“You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.”
“Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.”
“I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.”
“Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true. But with Possibilianism I'm hoping to define a new position - one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities. Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.”

Source : "Stray Questions for: David Eagleman". Interview with Blake Wilson, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. July 10, 2009.
“If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for the same to one who travels in life light by choice and not compulsions than other who is too eager to board on a success flight.”
“It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.”

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