“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
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“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.”
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“Don’t you see that I cannot be composed, I cannot reconcile myself, because there is no other reality but loneliness for me and before I am dragged back into isolation I will clasp and grasp and claw in fright even at you without consciousness—even I—and I am afraid that I cannot survive if I have to go on into myself.”
― The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
― The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
“Sister Sasaki stayed beside him all that time, holding his hand, so that he might die knowing that, living, he had pleased her.”
― Hiroshima
― Hiroshima
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