"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
-Lester Bangs
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"As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before."
-Lester Bangs
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"Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down."
-Lester Bangs
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"It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics."
-Lester Bangs
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
-Steve Martin
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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