“People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn’t have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.”
-Elizabeth Wurtzel
(Source: tellingtaleheart, via seaweeded-deactivated20120825)
In the early 80s, it was annoying to have some band from England with stupid hair and a Yamaha DX7 come over and be on the cover of every magazine with their first single. Not because it took something away from us, but simply because it took something away from all the great music that was being made in America. The magazines would ignore the Replacements and the Embarrassment and the dB’s and Black Flag because there was no trendy gimmick involved. That’s what pissed us off. We were happy to ring the bell for American music and let people know there was all this great stuff going on that you wouldn’t see on the cover of Dumbass Magazine just because we didn’t have weird haircuts.
- Mike Mills, in Pitchfork’s career spanning interview (also with Michael Stipe)
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Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
In my senior year of high school we had a project called “Quotes to Live By” in where we chose 10 quotes that encompassed our philosophies, beliefs and desires. This was the first one I chose (right after reading the complete Persepolis not long before). Never underestimate the importance of steadfast virtue.
