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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."
"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."
"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."
"The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem."
"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."
"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."
"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
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