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“Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.”

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Alan Vega

Alan Vega, born on June 23, 1938, was an influential American vocalist and songwriter. His musical career began in the 1970s, and he became known for his unique voice and style in the punk, industrial, and electronic music genres. Vega collaborated with artists such as Marianne Faithfull and Suzy Bogguss, and he is renowned for his contributions to music and art. more

“Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.”

People Reality Suffering Can Do Five Minutes Ten Tired Clever Sensible Tire Lectures Grudge Lecturer

Book:My Discovery of England

Source: My Discovery of England

“The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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