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1 posted on 01/03/2010 11:27:44 AM PST by nickcarraway
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“I have seen my father being transformed into an anti-Sarkozy missile,” she told RTL radio.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix ...

-- Allen Ginsburg

2 posted on 01/03/2010 11:32:27 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (We have the 1st so that we can call on people to rebel. We have 2nd so that they can.)
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3 posted on 01/03/2010 11:46:17 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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"It was ridiculous giving the Nobel Prize to Camus. They gave it to him on the basis of what? The Stranger? A couple of books of essays? I was very fond of Camus, I couldn't have liked him more, but if there was ever a minor writer it was Camus."

- Truman Capote

4 posted on 01/03/2010 12:07:08 PM PST by wideminded
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I remember very clearly, my feelings while reading The Stranger, 20-odd years ago: “What the?....$@*% this.”


5 posted on 01/03/2010 12:27:54 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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Thanks nickcarraway.
7 posted on 01/03/2010 1:15:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year!)
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