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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.
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I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.
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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
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I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
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The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred
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I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.
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It's never to late to do nothing at all.
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Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
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What is obscenity? And to whom?
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An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
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Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.
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We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.
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You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.
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