“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
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