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I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.


Allen Ginsberg

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JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN You can hide from the devil, but he'll always find you.
ALLEN IVERSON The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual ...
ALLEN WEST I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the firs...
ALLEN IVERSON There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to h...
ALLEN BOYD The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen So...
NANCY ALLEN God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.
WOODY ALLEN Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
DEBBIE ALLEN I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.
WOODY ALLEN Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.
GEORGE ALLEN In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of c...
TIM ALLEN Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oas...
ALLEN WEST The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
WOODY ALLEN From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and be...
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