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Greil Marcus has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility…
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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass…
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I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as…
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What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as…
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We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail
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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born…
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Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk…
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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something…
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I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding…
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I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.
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Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises,…
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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading…
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Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the…
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I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I…
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Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all,…
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Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as…
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Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to…
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Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he…
— Clifford Geertz
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I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties,…
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