"There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now."

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Source : Quoted in Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (1980)

Allen Ginsberg

#Fiction Quotes #Science Fiction Quotes

“There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-”
“My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.”

Source : Craig E. Adcock, James Turrell (1990). “James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space”, p.205, Univ of California Press
“There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me.”
“This is servitude, To serve the unwise.”
“The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.”
“Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.”
“My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.”
“Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.”

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