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Type: Writer Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Date of Birth: December 14, 1941 Date of Death: November 9, 2006 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Ellen Willis Related Authors: Mason Cooley H. L. Mencken Eric Hoffer Elbert Hubbard Oliver Wendell Holmes Marilyn vos Savant Bill James Jeff Long |
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
Ellen Willis In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic. Ellen Willis Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. Ellen Willis My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. Ellen Willis On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. Ellen Willis |
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