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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
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To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing.
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I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
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You can't photograph everything.
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Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question How does one become a prophet?]
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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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This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.
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Scientist alone is true poet.
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That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this entity, as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.
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who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism
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My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.
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The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.
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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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The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?
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Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?
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Candor disarms paranoia.
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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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You are what you think about all day.
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What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
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