"There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid."

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Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

Camille Paglia

#War Quotes #Class Quotes #Ivy Quotes

“Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.”
“Jesus, you've got a death wish." "Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid.”
“Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.”
“I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.”
“My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
“He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants.”
“On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.”
“I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.”

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