Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#dreams

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#book #brooks #century #early #i

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#easier #image #much #read #something

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

#become #dictator #europe #fascists #find

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#disenchanted #i #just #like #paint

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. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#big #future #huge #lies #medium-sized

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#attack #exists #fascist #freedom #freedom of speech

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#criminals #democrats #doing #international #nothing

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#in fact #looking #ourselves #stable #very

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bookstore #just #lawyers #money #were