"I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years."

-- Gary Snyder

#Years Quotes #Vision Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?”
“One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.”
“So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.”

Source : "Jeremy Irons on Integrity". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
“I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.”
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
“a technician who uses the term â€œglitchâ€ is like a Doctor who tells you youâ€™re suffering from a â€œthingy,â€ except the doctor wonâ€™t tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.”

Source : John Connolly (2009). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
“I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.”
“No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.”

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