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98cb8ac 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. writer writing vision jack-kerouac memory Jack Kerouac
b5e08e4 Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last. hate world book-of-sketches jack-kerouac Jack Kerouac
5c3dc2c Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields. life field-station breeze jack-kerouac Jack Kerouac
ac897e9 I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. words literature books dreams national-poetry-month famous-quotes-from-classic-books literary-inspiration endurance nanowrimo prolific-authors writers-and-writing famous-authors the-writing-life determination language genius writers creativity jack-kerouac Aberjhani
32e1545 I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones? skeleton pride jack-kerouac Jack Kerouac
5699bf0 You were right, I suppose, in keeping your distance. I was too intent on self-fulfillment, and rather crude about it, with all my harlequinade and conscious manipulation of your pity. love unrequited-love beat-generation jack-kerouac Allen Ginsberg
ff752a8 I have just discovered that I have no feelings, just thoughts, borrowed thoughts taken from someone I admire because he seems to have feelings. thoughts feelings jack-kerouac Allen Ginsberg
b3a33cf "A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. early-stories-and-other-writings prose-poetry the-poet timeless optimist society beat jack-kerouac Jack Kerouac
f950de7 Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers. love-quotes lovers love beloved jack-kerouac Allen Ginsberg
a0bf3bf The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take them off so they don't get wrinkled. Face it, the really great fucks in a man's life was when there was no time to take yr clothes off, you were too hot and she was too hot - none of yr Bohemian leisure, this was middleclass explosions against snowbanks, against walls of shithouses in attics, on sudden couches in the lobby - Talk about yr hot peace. sex fashions word-sketch jack-kerouac Jack Kerouac
646e429 "I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood." humor favorite-books pretension pretentiousness thomas-pynchon stephen-crane don-delillo jack-kerouac Caroline Kepnes
371c1c4 "I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood." -- humor favorite-books pretension pretentiousness thomas-pynchon stephen-crane don-delillo jack-kerouac Caroline Kepnes
4a876ac They're auras, Davey. I see them, too. The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors begin to show themselves. poetry energy-field literature-in-translation chakras christina-westover energy-manipulation telepathy san-francisco colors beatnik jack-kerouac Christina Westover
1bf4b27 And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery. store vacant souls supper jack-kerouac Jack Kerouac
8310472 Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writing about them everybody'll give up reading in despair-There'll be an Explosion of childhoods and pasts, they'll have to have a giant Brain print them out microscopically on film to be stored in a warehouse on Mars to give Heaven Seventy Kotis to catch up on all that reading- Seventy Million Million Kotis! - Whoopee! - Everything is free! prophecy jack-kerouac Jack Kerouac
ae047b4 Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul understood true meaning of love. photography fiction poetry empathy humanity love chakras christina-westover telepathy san-francisco soul jack-kerouac Christina Westover
81a2403 Assuming I am mad (Ha!) god, how I must have suffered to go mad. And all the time I was calling to people to save me and no one put out his hand and held it. This is like suicide, only I am alive and looking out of this living death I can see the people weep and feel sorry. Alas, nobody even weeps. It's all a dream. suicide going-mad jack-kerouac suicide-thoughts Allen Ginsberg
4968b6d I want to see you. I feel more and more at with you now actually than ever before, I feel you more, actually more clarity, more confidence, more trust. love-quotes love feeling-at-home longing-for-love longing-for-someone jack-kerouac Allen Ginsberg
f285331 Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER. literature fiction poetry imagination inspirational chakras christina-westover energy-manipulation telepathist telepathy san-francisco art jack-kerouac Christina Westover
38d2893 I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of others; for him writing was just a part of living. writing ken-kesey jack-kerouac Sterling Lord