Rob Sheffield Quotes

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I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

Rob Sheffield
In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

Rob Sheffield
Some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

Rob Sheffield
The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

Rob Sheffield
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

Rob Sheffield
Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

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Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

Rob Sheffield
When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

Rob Sheffield
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Rob Sheffield
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Rob Sheffield