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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
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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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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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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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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.
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Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.
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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.
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The suffering itself is not so bad it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
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Candor disarms paranoia.
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