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“A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.”
― The Atrocity Exhibition
― The Atrocity Exhibition
“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...”
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“Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.”
― Cocaine Nights
― Cocaine Nights
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”
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“It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.”
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