Quotes of Pulp - somelinesforyou

“ The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ You read a script and its based on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it goes right in the bin. ”

- Tim Roth

“ A thorn in the flesh. ”

- Bible

“ Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal… ”

- Wright C. Mills

“ For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into "the masses… ”

- Lillian Smith
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