Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Read Quote
They were looking for a stable, but we didn’t have one. In fact, we weren’t very stable ourselves. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Read Quote
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn’t have any money for lawyers. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Read Quote
It’s much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Read Quote
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ‘bottom line’ editors; everything depends on the money. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Read Quote
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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Read Quote
I’m reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Read Quote
Don’t patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he’s stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Read Quote
