"We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings."

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Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2001). “San Francisco Poems”, p.2, City Lights Books

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#Reading Quotes #Our Generation Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.”
“Whoever acts with respect will get respect.”
“Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.”
“We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.”
“I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.”

Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, uk.askmen.com.
“Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.”
“I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.”
“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.”

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