Memorable Quotes from Mark Derwin
2 quotesQuestioning Substance Use Among Friends
Diane Gaines
Are you huffing?
Bartleby
Oh god.
Diane Gaines
Are you high?
Jack Gaines
You're huffing grass?
Bartleby
No I'm not huffing mom I'm not stoned I'm completely fine, in fact I'm more clear and level headed than I've ever been.
Jack Gaines
Okay cut the crap Bartleby. Society has rules and the first rule is: You go to college. You wanna have a happy and successful life, you go to college. If you wanna be somebody, you go to college. If you wanna fit in, you go to college.
Bartleby
Well you know what? Maybe I didn't get into college!
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Critique of Education and Consumer Culture
Bartleby
Uh, Dean Lewis why don't you tell them a little bit about the philosophy here at south Harmon?
Ben
Look, we throw a lot of fancy words in front of these kids in order to attract them to going to school in the belief that they're gonna have a better life, and we know that all were doing is breeding a whole new generation of buyers and sellers, BUYERS AND SELLERS! Pimps and whores, PIMPS AND WHORES! and indoctrinating them into a life long hell of debt and indecision!
Jack Gaines
I... I, I just don't understand...
Ben
DO I HAVE TO SPOON FEED IT TO YA? look, there's only one reason that kids want to go to school...
Bartleby
Holy shit...
[quietly]
Jack Gaines
... Which is?
[after long pause]
Ben
...To get a good job... To get a good job, with a great starting salary.
Jack Gaines
I couldn't agree more.
[long pause]
Diane Gaines
It is so refreshing to have somebody approach education so rationally!
Ben
Fuckin A!
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