"Subject is known by what she sees."
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"I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade."
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"It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is."
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"Everybody's serious but me."
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"They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?"
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"Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise."
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"America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?"
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"Things are symbols of themselves."
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"This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known."
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"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control."
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"We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death."
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"Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped."
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"he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it"
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"I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?"
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"who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism"
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"If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order."
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"The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around."
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"I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly."
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"Inside skull vast as outside skull"
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"The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ." and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state."
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