“Soft lads who blab”

— Mark E. Smith

The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/life-lessons-mark-e-smith-on-bullying-the-occult-and-why-stalin-had-the-right-idea-6260036.html, 13 November 2011
On the Glastonbury festival, On the NYPD

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