Gregory Corso Quotes

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• Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went…
• I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
• My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the…
• But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?
• They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite…
• I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents,…
• I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
• I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.
• My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
• The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
• You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.
• The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
• Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
• If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.
• I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant
• It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from…
• Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!
• I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
• My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
• The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the…

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