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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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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…
— William Matthews
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Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.
— Unknown Author
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I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints…
— Colin Farrell
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If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...
— Donna VanLiere
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Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.
— Unknown Author
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The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.
— Rudolf Steiner
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It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.…
— George Orwell
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We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the…
— Nick Cave
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What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible…
— Roger Angell
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