Allen Ginsberg
Some things, once you've loved them, become yours forever./And if you try to let them go... /They only circle back and return to you./They become part of who you are...
Lucien Carr
...or they destroy you.
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Allen Ginsberg
[reading his poem]
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul, in your isolation but you fortunate in your ignorance. You who have suffered find where love hides, give, share, lose, lest we die unbloomed.
Jack Kerouac
Allen, that was beautiful, kid.
Lucien Carr
You wrote that?
Allen Ginsberg
You asked me to.
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Allen Ginsberg
Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.
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Lucien Carr
First thought, best thought.
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Allen Ginsberg
It's missing some periods and commas.
Lucien Carr
It's better than anything you've ever written.
Allen Ginsberg
I use periods and commas.
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Allen Ginsberg
[upon William Burroughs offering him a joint]
Uhm, no thanks, I don't do the cannabis.
William Burroughs
Show me the man who is both sober and happy, and I will show you the crinkled anus of a lying asshole.
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Allen Ginsberg
You got me and Jack and Bill making your vision come true because you can't do it yourself.
Lucien Carr
No, Allen. You got what you wanted. You were ordinary, just like any other freshman and I made your life extraordinary. Go be you, now all by yourself. Leave me alone!
Lucien Carr
Allen. Leave!
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Lucien Carr
I was a kid, and you dragged me into your perverted mess.
David Kammerer
How can you say that? You know that's not true. I will never give up on us.
Lucien Carr
You're pathetic.
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David Kammerer
You said I was everything to you. You are everything to me. Everything to me, do you hear me? Please, Lu. Please?
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Lucien Carr
He wishes he were.
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[repeated line]
Lucien Carr
Leave!
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Lucien Carr
Freshman?
Allen Ginsberg
Yes.
Lucien Carr
Excellent. I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.
[holding up his glass]
Lucien Carr
Cheers. To Walt, you dirty bastard
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Louis Ginsberg
Love that is hoarded moulds at last. Until we know, the only thing we have.
Allen Ginsberg
Is what we give away.
Louis Ginsberg
Is what we hand away. Have, hand. It's consonance.
Allen Ginsberg
Give, is. Assonance.
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Jack Kerouac
Movements are cooked up by people who can't write about the people who can.
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William Burroughs
Contrary to reports, prison is not a tonic for the spirit.
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Allen Ginsberg
I've been thinking about what Yeats said. To be reborn, you have to die first.
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William Burroughs
The derangement of the senses.
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Allen Ginsberg
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I have heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose lest we die, unbloomed.
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Professor Steeves
Kill your darlings, your crushes, your juvenile metaphysics. None of them belong on the page. It is the first principle of good creative work..
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