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For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: American Culture Most Part Politics Separate Speak Two Were

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The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Affairs Artificial Culture Discourse Foreign Foreign Policy International More Nowhere Policy Politics Separation Than

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You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Appeal Attraction Committing Fanatics Freud Glory God Greater Human Human Race Limited Mass Nor Perverse Race Religious Suicide War You

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To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Casts Dangerous Fantasy Imagine Mistake Out Trauma

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What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Art Art Form Been Being Blues Businessmen Commercial Cultural Exploitation Far Form Grasp Itself Over Revolutionaries Rock Seem Taken

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I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: About Accomplishment Better Big Big Brother Brother Cared Claimed Fan More Musicians Point Something Technical Than Thought Were

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Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Care Give Liking Lives People Power Shape Souls Take Take Care Themselves Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 14th, 1941

Died: November 9th, 2006

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