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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.
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The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
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Everybody's serious but me.
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The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.
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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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Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
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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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Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question How does one become a prophet?]
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I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.
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The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.
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When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.
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