“Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.”
Alice Cooper (1948) American rock singer, songwriter and musician
“More and more it seemed to Ed that there was a vicious downside of American life, a greased skid of opportunism, cut corners, easy drugs, easy sex, a morality that grew cloudier each year.”
— Stephen King, book Apt Pupil
Different Seasons (1982), Apt Pupil
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