Quote by Lester Bangs
Its much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists

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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They wouldnt be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldnt be heroes if they werent miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again. – Lester Bangs

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As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. – 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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We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, its in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics. – Zach Galifianakis

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