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“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Disappear here”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.”
― Kristin Hersh, Rat Girl: A Memoir

“If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.”
― Kristin Hersh, Rat Girl

“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”
― Quentin Crisp

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

“If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.”
― Quentin Crisp

“However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.”
― Quentin Crisp

“The very purpose of existence it to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think of us.”
― Quentin Crisp

“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”
― Quentin Crisp

“Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.”
― Quentin Crisp

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.

- Gloria”
― Patti Smith, Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future

“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.”
― Patti Smith

“Everything comes down so pasteurized
everything comes down 16 degrees
they say your amplifier is too loud
turn your amplifier down
are we high all alone on our knees
memory is just hips that swing
like a clock
the past projects fantastic scenes
tic/toc tic/toc tic/toc
fuck the clock!”
― Patti Smith, Babel

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.”
― Patti Smith, Early Work 1970-1979

“I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.”
― patti smith, Just Kids

“Actually, the only time I ever tried to cultivate being sexy was when I read Peyton Place. I was about sixteen and I read that this guy's watching this woman walk and he can tell she's a good fuck by the way she walks. It's a whole passage. He's telling Allison McKenzie, "I know you're a virgin." And she says, "Well, how?" And he says, "I can tell by the way you walk." And I thought, Uh-oh, everybody knows! I was ashamed to be a virgin, so I tried to cultivate a fucked walk. I tried to figure out what it looked like. I figured I'd watch any hot woman I could. I mean, look at Jeanne Moreau. You watch her walk across the street on the screen and you know she's had at least a hundred men. (Penthouse interview, 1976)”
― Patti Smith

“I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire. ”
― Daniel Clowes

“Tease hair, not homos!”
― James St. James

“When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.”
― James St. James, Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

“Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.”
― Morrissey

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel