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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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

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Amber Hurdle

"To hold a pen is to be at war."

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Amber Hurdle

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

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Amber Hurdle

"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."

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Amber Hurdle

"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"

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Amber Hurdle

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

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Amber Hurdle

"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."

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Amber Hurdle

"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."

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Amber Hurdle

"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

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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."

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

Money

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"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."

People

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."

Reading

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."

Power

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making."

Death

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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
"I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American."

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"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."

Time

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