Seventies Quotes

“When a trapper entered the valley, I reflected back on my life as an Indian. "I'm sure as an Indian living  on the plains, I trapped animals for their fur and for their meat, I took what I needed for survival, but doing it for profit somehow rubbed me the wrong way”
― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

“If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f--k are you?”
― Jaffe Cohen, The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!

“If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.”
― Will Self, How the Dead Live

“Sometimes I feel as if I've lived about six lifetimes...all fictionalized in my six books.”
― Laurel-Rain Snow, Miles to Go

“If I'm an archangel, you can hide under my wing
until the sun
comes up”
― Andy Seven, HSTQ: Fall 2020

“Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsening. Living through that time, we didn’t see that. We believed in our capacity to grow a great country. A just society.”
― Kaimana Wolff, La Chiripa

“Is that a quote from a seventies Swedish porn?
In that case: haven't seen it. What's the title?”
― Jean Koning, Quotes and Thoughts

“You don't have to go to another planet to see the aliens, just look at the people in the interesting dresses of the seventies!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The idea of betrayal was in the air. The Summer of Love had migrated, in its drug-resistant strain, to the Connecticut suburbs about five years after its initial introduction.”
― Rick Moody, The Ice Storm

“There was an urge growing through the Seventies - and perhaps after all it was the normal urge of the British - to look for offence, to feel morally affronted, and to make someone suffer for it.”
― Norman Shrapnel, The seventies: Britain's inward march

“Is that a quote from a seventies Swedish porn?
In that case: haven't seen it. What's the title?”
― Jean Koning