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- I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
- New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken…
- Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an…
- We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was…
- The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new.
- Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
- What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common…
- From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with…
- I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough…
- I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the…
- My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's…
- ...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it…
- I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
- We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able…
- He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and…
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