Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
From Lawrence Ferlinghetti
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
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