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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quote

“Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.”

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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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.

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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

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

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