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" I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. "
Allen Ginsberg
Best
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" Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music. "
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" America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing. "
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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 fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive. "
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" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "
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" Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! "
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" Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. "
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" Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. "
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" Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. "
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" You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre. "
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" Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. "
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" I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948. "
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" America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? "
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" I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill. "
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" The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton. "
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" My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. "
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" I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. "
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" Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. "
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" I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature. "
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" I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven. "
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