#underground

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. ↗

— John Mayer

#order #release #songs #stick #tracks

There will always be an underground. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#underground #will

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#better #civilized #couched #die #flight

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#language #poetry #pressured #resilient #simply

fury said to a mouse that he met in the house let us both go to law; I will prosecute you let there be no denial; come, we must have a trial for really, this morning, I've nothing to do such a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the cur without jury or judge would be wasting our breath I'll be judge, I'll be jury said cunning old fury I'll try the whole cause and condemn you to death ↗

— Lewis Carrol

#death

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground. ↗

— Peter Bart

#basic #become #certainly #cozy #emerging

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#been #hip-hop #ideas #locked #mostly

I could not become anything: neither bad nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#notes-from-the-underground #intelligence

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#does #i #i do #know #underground

I'm very underground. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#underground #very