"I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full;"

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Source : Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

Gregory Corso

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“If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.”

Source : Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.
“Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?”
“I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.”
“It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.”
“It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.”
“Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.”

Source : John Hans Kautsky, Karl Kautsky (1924). “Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy”, p.217, Transaction Publishers
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
“I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't hide behind a bush on it in respect to the times that I did lose my temper. But you know the quality that I had when I lost my temper, I never, ever brought it back again.”

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