Andrei Codrescu quotes
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“There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A.M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.”
-- Andrei CodrescuSource : "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.
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“The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.”
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“It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.”
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“Only the poor can create art.”
-- Andrei CodrescuSource : Speech at a public forum held at the Los Angeles Public Library, April 28, 2010.
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“Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.”
-- Andrei CodrescuSource : Andrei Codrescu (1989). “Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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“How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.”
-- Andrei Codrescu#Falling In Love Quotes #Thinking Quotes #New Orleans Quotes
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“In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.”
-- Andrei CodrescuSource : Andrei Codrescu (2009). “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess”, p.7, Princeton University Press
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“The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.”
-- Andrei CodrescuSource : Andrei Codrescu (2009). “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess”, p.139, Princeton University Press
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“It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.”
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“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”
-- Andrei CodrescuSource : Andrei Codrescu (2006). “New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City”, p.195, Algonquin Books
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“The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.”
-- Andrei Codrescu
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