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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
Spiritual
Materialism
Contemporary
Incredible
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Ignorance
Claustrophobic
Movies
Theism
Violence
Sentimentality
Crazy
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Literal thousands of Americans taking to the road and getting into that green automobile and just going. At the same time there is real incredible work [of art] that comes out of it. Never forget that.
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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.
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As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.
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I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.
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I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'
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