It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

Allen Ginsberg

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I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

Allen Ginsberg

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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Allen Ginsberg

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Our heads are round so thought can change direction

Allen Ginsberg

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To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

Allen Ginsberg

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It's never to late to do nothing at all.

Allen Ginsberg

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To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

Allen Ginsberg

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Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Allen Ginsberg

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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

Allen Ginsberg

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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Allen Ginsberg

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We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.

Allen Ginsberg

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You are what you think about all day.

Allen Ginsberg

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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Allen Ginsberg

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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Allen Ginsberg

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The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Allen Ginsberg

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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Allen Ginsberg

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First thought, best thought.

Allen Ginsberg

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Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

Allen Ginsberg

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The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

Allen Ginsberg

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Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

Allen Ginsberg

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