Studs Terkel Quotes
1912–2008 United States
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian and broadcaster.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt.
I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.
The Guardian interview (2002)
I was walking downstairs carrying a drink in one hand and a book in the other. Don't try that after ninety.
I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.
The Guardian interview (2002)
I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day — indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue — the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.
Heroic? I was scared shitless! But my ego was at stake. My vanity. "Whaddya mean, I'm dumb?"
The Guardian interview (2002)
Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go. That's your charge.
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