Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
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Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.
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Every Tom, Dick and Harry in our movement has received his cash.
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I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.
