Gregory Corso

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Gregory Corso

Born: March 26, 1930

Died: January 17, 2001

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet, writer

Biography: Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers.

Gregory Corso

“You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.”

- Gregory Corso

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“O God, and the wedding! All her family and her friends and only a handful of mine all scroungy and bearded just wait to get at the drinks and food—.”

- Gregory Corso

Source/Notes: Marriage l. 24 (1960)
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“Ah, yet well I know that were a woman possible as I am possible then marriage would be possible— Like she in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover so I wait—bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life.”

- Gregory Corso

Source/Notes: Marriage l. 109 (1960)
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“It's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes— I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible.”

- Gregory Corso

Source/Notes: Marriage l. 100 (1960)
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“What if I'm 60 years old and not married, all alone in a furnished room with pee stains on my underwear and everybody else is married!”

- Gregory Corso

Source/Notes: Marriage l. 106 (1960)
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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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“The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.”

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“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.”

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“I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.”

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“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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“I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.”

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“I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.”

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“My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.”

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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

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