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True Believers QUOTES

True Believers QUOTES

1 " Back then I used to say that I despised the new coinage “quality time,” that it was yuppie parents’ smiley-face equivalent to lawyers’ “billable hours. "

― Kurt Andersen , True Believers

2 " Then I read The Once and Future King, and for most of a year I was young Arthur, Dad was Merlyn, and it was my destiny to create the perfect kingdom of Camelot somewhere beyond northeastern Illinois. "

― Kurt Andersen , True Believers

3 " Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication. "

― Kurt Andersen , True Believers

4 " That’s why Occupy was so cool at first,” Waverly says, “because it was actually different from what’d been done before. But most protests seem like cover versions of old songs. Like we’re all in a sixties tribute band. "

― Kurt Andersen , True Believers

5 " He tells me I’m “the ultimate poster child for my generation—you have everything you could possibly want, sky’s the limit, then you decide you’ve got to burn down the joint, you do all this lunatic shit, then you suddenly change your mind and decide, ‘Nah, America’s not so bad after all—waiter, I’ll have another chardonnay,’ tuck in to this sweet life, and get away with it all scot-fucking-free. "

― Kurt Andersen , True Believers