Thoughts on { Dead End Street | William Arthur Ward / Stephen Wright / Greil Marcus / Ray Davies
Fred Lyon, San Francisco, 1945
“Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.”
William Arthur Ward (1921-94)
“I live on a one-way street that’s also a dead end. I’m not sure how I got there.”
Stephen Wright
“It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.”
Greil Marcus
The Kinks, Dead End Street, 1966
Filmed on Little Green Street, a diminutive eighteenth century lane
in North London, located off Highgate Road in Kentish Town.
