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who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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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'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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
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They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?
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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
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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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Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.
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First thought, best thought.
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I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.
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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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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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America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
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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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It's never to late to do nothing at all.
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Candor disarms paranoia.
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Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
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War is good business Invest your son
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All these books are published in Heaven.
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America, why are your libraries full of tears?
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
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