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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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You assume we are all sexually stable while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.
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To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
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Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.
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The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.
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If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order.
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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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who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism
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Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
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