Gregory Corso Quotes

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

They, that unnamed hey, 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

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence. - Gregory Corso

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis. - Gregory Corso

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man. - 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

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her. - Gregory Corso

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

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. - Gregory Corso

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