Quotes About Rebellion

I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe

When our oppressor is all-powerful, where shall we fly for justice?

Sebastian contra mundum.

What is adolescence without trash?

Contra mundum? Contra mundum.

Did you have a little talk with mummy?' 'Yes.' 'Have you gone over to her side?' The day before I would have said: 'There aren't two sides,'; that day I said, 'No, I'm with you, Sebastian contra mundum.

Punk is an attitude. Hardcore is a lifestyle. the first seeks to subvert society. The second aims to live outside of it.

Amory smiled discreetly...'But beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit--the Rousseau, the Tolstoi, the Samuel Butler, the Amory Blaine-

Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

Do you believe in bobbed hair? asked G. Reece in the same undertone. I think it's unmoral, affirmed Bernice gravely. But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed'em or shock'em.

Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.

This Side of Paradise

I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.

some of the boys she went with in Baltimore were terrible speeds and came to dances in states of artificial stimulation;

Os americanos], conquanto se mostrem dispostos, e até ansiosos, por ser escravos, sempre se recusaram, obstinadamente, a ser camponeses.

you can lope about and get bored and then lope somewhere else, and you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony. If I were born a hundred years from now, well and good, but now what's in store for me—I have to marry, that goes without saying.