"The age of the book is almost gone."

-- George Steiner

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“The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.”
“When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”
“I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..”
“The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type â€¦ Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.73, New Directions Publishing
“Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.”
“Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.”
“I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.”
“I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.”

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