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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

— Allen Ginsberg

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Who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall.

HOWL (1955)

Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen!

Howl (1956)

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

The war is language,
language abused
for Advertisement,
language used
like magic for power on the planet.

When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?

America (1956)

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Edward Teller

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

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