A Quote by Allen Ginsberg

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg

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Avocados Babies Doing Down Families Full Husbands Lorca Night Peaches Shopping Tomatoes Were Whole Wives

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Allen Ginsberg
American - Poet
June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997

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Leonard Cohen

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Sara Coleridge

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

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Joseph B. Wirthlin

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

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Raymond Chandler

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