Quote by Lester Bangs
They wouldnt be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they would

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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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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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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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. – Lawrence Durrell

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The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. – Eldridge Cleaver

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. – English Proverb

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