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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Gregory Corso

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Gregory Corso
Age: 70 †
Born: 1930
Born: March 26
Died: 2001
Died: January 17
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Gregory Nunzio Corso
Went
Quite
Unnamed
Moving
Knocked
Often
Named
Fall
Swear
Nothing
Moves
Long
Mountain
Always
Took

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