As disjointed as the quotations might seem, it is not a collection. It is a single novel and it's not Ginsberg, although they are American.
A final hint and then I'll put you out of your misery.
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The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
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Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.
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