"Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it."

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Source : Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

Ellen Willis

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“I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.”
“Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.”

Source : Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.81, Picador
“At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.”
“I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.”
“I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.”
“For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the "lie," because when you look closer, every "lie" - and I say that with quotation marks - can be much more complicated. Because that is what fiction is: it's probably the least important thing in the world. It's rich, but it is put-on, it passes the time. It borrows from the world, but it does not invent it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.”

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