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“I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game...”
Source : Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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“There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.”
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“You have to find your own tricks!”
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“Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.”
Source : Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
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“Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.”
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“This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”
Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
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“Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.”
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“I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.”
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“Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
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“I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.”
