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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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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of…
— Jeremy Bentham
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known…
— Mark Twain
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All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the…
— William Shakespeare
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
— Horace Walpole
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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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