• I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

  Allen Ginsberg
  American poet 1926-1997
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. burroughs
2. realized
3. thinking
4. thoughts
5. saying
6. skull

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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. by : Allen Ginsberg

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