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«I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dyn»
Author: Allen Ginsberg
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Keywords:
ancient,
Angel,
burning,
connection,
destroyed,
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fix,
headed,
heavenly,
hipsters,
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My Generation,
naked,
Negro,
starving
«I never saw any of man's baser acts of inhumanity to man. I never saw screaming 'witches' burned at the stake, Christians tossed to starving lions, maidens pushed over the edge of active volcanoes. I never even saw a man going to the electric chair. But until I do, watching Ben Hogan walk up to a five-foot putt is my idea of cruel and inhuman punishment, only a Hitler would enjoy. You feel like saying 'Go home to your wife and kiddies and don't look upon this terrible thing!'»
Author: Jim Murray
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Writer)
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Keywords:
baser,
ben,
Ben Hogan,
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burned at the stake,
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chair,
electric,
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go home,
Hitler,
hogan,
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lions,
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Maidens,
Over the Edge,
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screaming,
stake,
starving,
tossed,
volcanoes,
walk-up
«Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.»
«Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.»
Author: Sheryl Crow
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Guitarist,
Singer,
Song Writer)
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Keywords:
Balkan,
Balkans,
duress,
enduring,
extremely,
folk music,
for music,
military music,
Olds,
once-over,
patriotic,
regular,
starving,
The Balkans,
veterans
«I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.»
«I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.»
«I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.»
«I still live somewhat by the Zone, it's the only thing that works for me. Before, I had been starving myself and in a dieting vortex I couldn't get out of. Now I pretty much eat whatever I want.»
«I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.»
«People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.»