Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.
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What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
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You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
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Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.
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Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.
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With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.
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... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
