Friday-the-thirteenth Quote by Allen Ginsberg

“Can I make you happier with powder on my chest? Do you need a thousand movie shows? Sixteen million people to ride the bus…

— Jack Kerouac

“Visions of a pitched battle in the docks flashed through my mind. Innocent bystanders torn apart by gunfire and explosions. Children wailing and parents,…

— G.R. Matthews

“The right words are fire that burn through the most stagnant of hearts and minds”

— Ashley Lynn Dotson

“They burn books now, mama.The monsters burn fucking books now, mama. They have eyes full of disappointing madness. Their tongues taste like fulvous indoctrination.…

— Laura Gentile

“Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming…

— Mark Helprin

“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is dead. From…

— Lê Thi Diem Thúy

“Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their…

— Ice-T

“These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fingers in their hair of murders Multitudinous murders they once witnessed. Wading sloughs of…

— Wilfred Owen

“This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks…

— Jo Ann Beard

“Then think of fire, It’s laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, The flames reaching through the second story of a house almost…

— Larry Levis

“At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be…

— Winston Groom

“Life is flinching in the midst of breathing, gasping at the thought of dying. It’s climbing ropeless up sheer rock faces, groping for the…

— Chila Woychik