#sixties

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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.


David Foster Wallace


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During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.


Michael Winner


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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.


P. J. O'Rourke


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But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.


Ronnie Spector


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I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.


Tori Amos


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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.


John le Carre


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I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.


Bernadine Dohrn


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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.


Jerry Garcia


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I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.


John Perkins


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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.


John Lennon


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