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
“People live on dead end street
People are dying on dead end street”
Ray Davies
The Kinks, Dead End Street, 1966
