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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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This is the one and only firmament therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.
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Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
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What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
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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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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
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I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
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The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.
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Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question How does one become a prophet?]
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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.
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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction
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he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
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The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
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It's never to late to do nothing at all.
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War is good business Invest your son
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Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
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