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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."

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Donna Grant

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

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Donna Grant

"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."

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Donna Grant

"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."

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Donna Grant

"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

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Donna Grant

"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."

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Donna Grant

"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

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Donna Grant

"Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not."

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Donna Grant

"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

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Donna Grant

"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."

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Donna Grant

"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers."

Money

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."

Change

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Southern California, where the American Dream came too true."

Dream

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."

Hope

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."

Democracy

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."

Future

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."

War

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