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My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Cobain
Age: 27 †
Born: 1967
Born: February 20
Died: 1994
Died: April 8
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If you read, you'll judge.
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I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.
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And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun
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The world sucks, people are not true
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I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...
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Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
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If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.
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I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.
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In the sun I feel as one.
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If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
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