Modern country music speaks less of such desperate loss, and has become shiny and rich and rather shallow as a result. The dead have all but disappeared, though they do occasionally
“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.”
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“If you stay alive for no reason at all, please do it for spite.”
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