"I'm writing this book because we're all going to die."
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"Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy."
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"We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends."
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"Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors."
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"He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence"
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"I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do."
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"But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do"
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"A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved."
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"Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do."
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"my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom."
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"I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions."
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"..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was"
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"Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea."
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"The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie."
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"Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance."
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"Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain."
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"Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind."
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"It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her."
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"Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind."
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"When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom."
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