They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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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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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.
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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
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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.
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I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
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