"I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more."

-- Layne Staley

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“It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.”
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place.”
“Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.”
“Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.”
“I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has become or that Bushwick or Williamsburg has become. It's not that outsiders come to an area because they hear artists are living there. A lot of people came who were not that interested in living with artists, but they were interested in living like artists and socializing the way that they thought artists socialized.”
“To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.”
“I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.”

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