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Chrissie Hynde: We Are All Prostitutes

Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 1 November 1986

"I CAN SIT down with someone who is shooting up heroin; I can talk to a woman who is about to have an abortion because she is completely freaked out with her situation; I can see someone who every morning says, 'I'm never gonna have another drink,' yet he's pissed that night; I can talk to a guy who's beaten up his wife and is crying...I can understand almost anything that anybody does that's just human weakness. But I still can't understand why someone would just walk over and step on a spider..."

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