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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
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Things are symbols of themselves.
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When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.
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It's never to late to do nothing at all.
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Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
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Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.
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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
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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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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
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Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness.
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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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The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
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It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.
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Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
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America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
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First thoughts are the strongest.
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The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
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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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America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
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