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These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
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It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
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Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
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We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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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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Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
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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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I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.
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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
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I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
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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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