"A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own."

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Source : Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.253, Anchor

Lester Bangs

#Block Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Hero Quotes

“Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
“I don't care. I'll start my own group. Rejection from society is what created X-Men!”
“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

Source : Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers
“When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.”
“Mike Pence is the hardest one to guess in 2020 as a leader, because I don't know if he is seen as the heir to the Donald Trump political movement or ig being the heir is a good thing.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.”
“Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.”
“I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.”

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