"Well, while I'm here I'll do the work……" — Allen Ginsberg
"Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow."
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Allen Ginsberg
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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 Drunken Quotes
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
— Aristotle
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Lord Chesterfield
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors…
— Jon Anderson
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died…
— Anna Sewell
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I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.
— David Pleat
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Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.
— Unknown Author
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Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in…
— Rob Ford
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I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace…
— Shirley MacLaine
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