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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
 
Date of birth: 24 March 1919
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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Poet

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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. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" 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. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" Before I was at Nagasaki, I was a good American boy. I was an Eagle Scout; I was the commander of a sub-chaser in the Normandy Invasion. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" 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. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. "

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" I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. "

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" I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. "

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" I'm still working on it. Look what it did for Pisa! "

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" It seemed the clamor was such that this book would not be allowed by proper society. After all, Howl was a vast castigation of American consumer society. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" It seems to me it's changing for the worse. The spineless Democrats are taking dictation from George II who usurped the throne and is occupying the palace illegally. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" It would have been nice had we provided a nice warm stable and we were feeding them regularly - the care and feeding of poets. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
" It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power. "

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