Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved."
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Yawning
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Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"Because the only people for me are the mad ones."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing."
Stendhal
Novelist
"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained."
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents."
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"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me."
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"And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said."
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"A yawn is a silent shout."
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"Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry."
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"The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents."
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"Only the children know what they are looking for."
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"Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss."
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"Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning."
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"There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God."
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"I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful."
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"There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present."
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"This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along."
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"But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all is fiery and yet dark,-a solitary hell, without suffering or sin,-we would do well to commit ourselves to the guidance of a living poet of the true faculty,-Thomas Aird and see with his eyes."
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