Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes (page 5)
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Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
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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.
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they`d been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
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And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
