"I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism."

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Source : Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.65, U of Minnesota Press

Ellen Willis

#Believe Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Nihilism Quotes

“We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds”
“music became my refuge and then my salvation.”
“Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.”
“I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.”
“I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.”

Source : "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.
“Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.”
“I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.”
“If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.”

Source : Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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