"No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes."

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Source : Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.33, Penguin

Greil Marcus

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“People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.”
“Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.”
“Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.”
“We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.”
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.â€â€¢ â€œPlay is the highest level of child development . . . It gives . . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world . . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life.â€â€¢ â€œChildren are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.”
“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”

Source : Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers
“There are always two or three or four sides to every story.”
“Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.”

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