"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
"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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Source: Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.178, Penguin UK
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