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Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Age: 101 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 24
Died: 2021
Died: February 22
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We were just a one-room bookstore we didn't have any money for lawyers.
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
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Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
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My country tears of thee.
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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors everything depends on the money.
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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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