Quote by John Cusack
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the m

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. – John Cusack

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Its something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone elses poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because youre too awkward to do it. – John Cusack

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Poetry
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Do I listen to pop music because Im miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? – John Cusack

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Music
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Theres also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense. – John Cusack

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Age
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Its just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one. – Jeanne Moreau

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Death

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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Death

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. – Tecumseh

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Death

I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets. – Wilson Mizner

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Death

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A burnt child dreads the fire. – English Proverb

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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson

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If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way. – Henry Rollins

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Effort

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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Life