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Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Crazy
Indulgence
Spiritual
Materialism
Contemporary
Incredible
Drive
Ignorance
Claustrophobic
Movies
Theism
Violence
Sentimentality

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