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Ellen Willis

"The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't."

Source : Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

Ellen Willis

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“I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.”
“I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more.”
“When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.”

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“We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.”
“We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.”
“To tell you the truth although it would put Â£500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.”

Source : Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson (1857). “The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer”, p.195
“I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.”
“Michael Cole loves me and I love it!”

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