Gerald Nicosia Quotes

• We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

  Gerald Nicosia

  People, Eras, Censorship

  "50 years later, 'Howl' still resonates". www.today.com. October 6, 2005.

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• You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate.

  Gerald Nicosia

  People, Intense, Slow Down

  "Beats Back Bigger Than Ever: An Interview With Gerald Nicosia". Interview with Jonah Raskin, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.

  Gerald Nicosia

  Mom, Hero, Book

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• People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.

  Gerald Nicosia

  People, Would Be, World

  "Beats Back Bigger Than Ever: An Interview With Gerald Nicosia". Interview with Jonah Raskin, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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