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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.
Gregory Corso



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Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: March 26, 1930
Died: January 17, 2001

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My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
Gregory Corso

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.
Gregory Corso

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.
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.
Gregory Corso

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.
Gregory Corso

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.
Gregory Corso

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Words
Ago, Always, Down, Fall, Get, Got, I Always, Itself, Knocked, Long, Mountain, Moves, Named, Nothing, Often, Quite, Swear, Them, Took, Unnamed, Up, Went
Definitions
Ago, Always, Down, Fall, Get, Got, Itself, Knocked, Long, Mountain, Named, Nothing, Often, Quite, Swear, Them, Took, Up, Went
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