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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.»
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Keywords: occasions
«Southern California, where the American Dream came too true»
«The world is a beautiful place to be born into - if you don't mind some people dying all the time - or maybe only starving - some of the time which isn't half so bad - if it isn't you»
«I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American»
«... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.»
«I greet you at the beginning of a great career,»
«Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.»
«This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.»
«Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.»
«I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.»