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Quote by Allen Ginsberg
So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse l

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic. – Allen Ginsberg

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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine,
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When it snows in your nose
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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. – Allen Ginsberg

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