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"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down."
"The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream."
"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
"It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever."
"John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'"
"But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?"
"Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true."
"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."
"Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days."
"Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live."
"colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization."
"Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind."
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved."
"The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me"
"No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge."
"Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much."
"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."
"Finding Nirvana is like locating silence."
"I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds."
"all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country."