"Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled."
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Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), p. 11.
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Greil Marcus
US-amerikanischer Autor und Musikjournalist
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