"A naked lunch is natural to us We……" — Allen Ginsberg
"A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness."
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118 Quotes by Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg has 118 quotes on this site.
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry…
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I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
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First thought, best thought.
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It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.
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The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you…
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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
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Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are…
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I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it…
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You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own…
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Things are symbols of themselves.
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
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More Allegories Quotes
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one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
— Herman Melville
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
— Manuel Puig
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There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles,…
— Stanley Kubrick
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A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
— Laurie Cabot
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Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories…
— Henry Timrod
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The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
— Michel Tournier
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The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and…
— William Howard Taft
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Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
— Walter Benjamin
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There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed…
— A. S. Byatt
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Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct -…
— Neill Blomkamp
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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of…
— Milan Kundera
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