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Should I get married? Should I be good?Gregory Corso
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Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.Gregory Corso
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The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.Gregory Corso
4 Quotes & Sayings By Gregory Corso
Gregory Corso was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in the Bronx. The son of a well-known Italian family, he became a protégé of visual poet Robert Rauschenberg. In 1939 at the age of sixteen, his family moved from New York to Paris. At seventeen he began experimenting with drugs and alcohol
He spent time in prison for armed robbery and was nearly executed. In 1946 he enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris where he met André Breton and other Surrealists including Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel. He became friends with Robert Rauschenberg and other artists and writers such as Jean Arp and Man Ray.