Quote by Lester Bangs
Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confu

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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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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Its 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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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. – Mikhail Gorbachev

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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. – V. S. Naipaul

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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. – Randolph Bourne

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