Andrei Codrescu Quotes

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In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

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Cookbooks…bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother's.

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Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the strangest place for fashion in America. They dress in what goes well with a highly polished aura. I imagine people there dress for their past lives.

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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.

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Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

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The Modernist's command was Pound's Make it New. The postmodern imperative is Get it Used. The more used the better.

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There is undoubtedly something religious about it: everyone believes that they are special, that they are chosen, that they have a special relation with fate. Here is the test: you turn over card after card to see in which way that is true. If you can defy the odds, you may be saved. And when you are cleaned out, the last penny gone, you are enlightened at last, free perhaps, exhilarated like an ascetic by the falling away of the material world.

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