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Lawrence Ferlinghetti has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Invent a new language anyone can understand.
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A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into…
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Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed…
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This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever.…
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they…
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I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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My country tears of thee.
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The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.
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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got…
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)…
— C.S. Lewis
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I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world…
— Sylvia Plath
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I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.
— Susan Orlean
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Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
— Andrei Codrescu
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She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is…
— David Lubar
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Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.
— J.M.G. Le Clézio
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to…
— Gary Shteyngart
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