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• Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

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  Soul, Jukebox, Misery

  Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.6, Random House

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• Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun. Once we get older we’re not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you’re eating a Valomilk, it’s okay to be messy again.

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  Fun, Dad, People

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.190, Algonquin Books

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• It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.

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  Broken, Ridiculous, Nostalgia

  Steve Almond (2007). “My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable! It's like he's saying, yeah, let some other set of parents or guardians put their boys up for that kind of punishment (and for my amusement). But not mine! It's just abject hypocrisy from a guy who should know better.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Son, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.

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  Heart, Men, Soul

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• It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith.

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  Crush, Song, Religious

  Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.71, Random House

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• All language is an aspiration to music.

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  Language, Aspiration

  Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.6, Random House

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• Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.

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  Football, Men, Doors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

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  Summer, School, Clothes

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.21, Algonquin Books

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• I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

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  Children, Hard Times, Cracks

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.8, Algonquin Books

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• It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning to cook was part of my journey toward actualization. I would love to tell Oprah this. I would love to tell Oprah this while weeping. But I learned to cook for a much simpler reason: in the abject hope that people would spend time with me if I put good things in their mouth. It is, in other words (like practically everything else I do), a function of my desperation for emotional connection and acclaim.

  Steve Almond

  Emotional, Journey, Self

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• I happen to love football so much and hate myself for loving it.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Hate, Hate Myself

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As an author, you either love yer peeps or you don't. There's no such thing as a "masculine voice" or a "feminine voice". Men and women think and speak and act in, like, a zillion different ways. Also, as a gross generalization: women tend to live closer to their feelings than men.

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  Men, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a novel that feels publishable. The books that truly take me away - for weeks at a time - are all novels.

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  Book, Thinking, Love Story

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I'm going to proportion more time to organizing and taking action and less time to passively consuming news that is dispiriting me. Part of this will be to get off social media. I know social media is just a tool, but we've been using it in a way that has transformed us from a nation into an audience, passively spectating our own ruin.

  Steve Almond

  Action, Social Media, Audience

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of the government and we're letting them make us into a much meaner culture. It reminds me of McCarthyism, to be honest, and to the early stages of fascism. There are people out there cheering for war, treating those deaths like some kind of athletic event. How sick do we have to be that this is not only acceptable, but virtually unchallenged by other politicians or clergy or anyone? And it's artists who have to stand up and be counted. Right now.

  Steve Almond

  Art, Cheer, Selfish

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

  Steve Almond

  Fighting, Want, Form

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense and demands more than other sports. And this is why the folks who are involved (as players, coaches, boosters, fans) are so much more devoted to it. It's really a cult, when you think about it.

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  Sports, Football, Kids

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

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  Football, Kids, Vulnerable

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys of color, because of what they can do to entertain us, not because we have any genuine concern for them as people.

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  Football, Depressing, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."

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  Football, War, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.

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  Sports, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Americans seem to be living in a state of fear about the world, one that just keeps intensifying. I mean, look at our cars and homes. They've become these massive barricades. Look at what we watch on TV and in the movies - it's all a bunch of violent ideation. And all these TV shows about dead bodies.

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  Home, Mean, Car

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it's a big drag. But it's also the only way to kick the habit.

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  Football, Media, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the publishing industry toward novels and away from short stories. They're seen as D.O.A. in the marketplace, which seems nuts to me, given that various collections done smashingly and deservedly well in economic terms.

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  Writing, Long, Done

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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