1930s Quote by Gregory Corso

“I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.”

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Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

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If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

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I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

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My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

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The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

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It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And…

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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…

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O how terrible it must be for a young man-- seated before a family and the family thinking We never saw him before! He…

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a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman

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I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these…

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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down…

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Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

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