#15 I didn't study literature; I studied music. So this myopic and condescending quote would be like me saying 'if they don't have the music of Thomas Tallis, recorded by the Tallis Scholars, on vinyl, not only do they not deserve my time and attention, but they should be publicly ridiculed and humiliated'. I would be ashamed to say that.

And if reading books made me that narcissistic and bigoted, I'd rather be illiterate.

John Waters. Yeah, I want life advice from a guy who made his mark with a movie about a morbidly obese tranny eating dog shite.

#17 *was