I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all … - Gregory Corso

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No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

Gregory Corso

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

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Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

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If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

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