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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
“Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.
- Golden Years”
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- Golden Years”
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“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.”
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“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”
― Howl and Other Poems
― Howl and Other Poems
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.”
― The Savage Detectives
― The Savage Detectives
Nicolas’s 2025 Year in Books
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