Andrei Codrescu
Andrei Codrescu
Andrei Codrescuis a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He was the Mac Curdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth20 December 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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I wish somebody told me don't take candy from strangers when I made my first tax-free Internet purchase. I wish that I had remembered the first one's free, which is how dealers make new junkies. I wish that every cliche humanity acquired to protect itself from its history of bamboozlement and trickery was sewn on every shirt pocket by a smart mom.
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Two-thirds of what we call New Orleans culture is really myth-making, ... People feed myths of the city back to the city. These myths are now in pieces.
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Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
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Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
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New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.
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Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.
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The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.
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Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.