Richard Hell Quotes

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• I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way,…
• In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.
• You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to…
• I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.
• I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.
• Things always change, and New York teaches you that.
• I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything…
• I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.
• A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
• An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
• I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.
• Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
• It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70…
• It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of…
• Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing…
• When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in…

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