It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence"

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and balancing on eye beams/ above a sea of faces/ paces his way/ to the other side of day"
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her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself"

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We...
LAWRENCE SUTTON
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had bro...
MARK LAWRENCE
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, ...
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more sui...
LAWRENCE BLOCK
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. LAWRENCE
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, a...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D.H. LAWRENCE
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
LAWRENCE BLOCK
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your he...
LAWRENCE BIXBY
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off...
D.H. LAWRENCE
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T.E. LAWRENCE
I am just going outside and may be some time.
LAWRENCE OATES
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly,...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our mann...
LAWRENCE STERNE
I value my integrity. Which is why it has a price.
MARK LAWRENCE
New WikiLeaks-provided e-mails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cas...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been ...
LAWRENCE KOHLBERG
I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Tr...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in ...
LAWRENCE BENDER
Does anybody remember, back in the depths of the recession of 1981-82, how President Reagan kept his...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady aroun...
LAWRENCE WELK
I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great...
LAWRENCE WELK
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two compani...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. ...
LAWRENCE KUTNER
I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE
You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but fo...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a lit...
MARTIN LAWRENCE