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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 574e4c0 | To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual. | James Hollis | ||
| 9c3947b | for she was the only girl they loved, as she is the queenly pearl you prize, because of the way the night that first we met she is bound to be, methinks, and not in vain, the darling of my heart, sleeping in her april cot, within her singachamer, with her greengageflavoured candywhistle duetted to the crazyquilt, Isobel, she is so pretty, truth to tell, wildwood's eyes and primarose hair, quietly, all the woods so wild, in mauves of moss an.. | James Joyce | ||
| 8e75e67 | Actually, this is a poem my father once showed me, a long time ago. It has been bastardized many times, in many ways, but this is the original: The Cold Within Six men trapped by happenstance, in bleak and bitter cold Each possessed a stick of wood, or so the story's told. Their dying fire in need of logs, the first man held his back For of the faces round the fire, he noticed one was black. One man looking cross the way, saw one not o.. | hate prejudice | James Patrick Kinney | |
| 7c28029 | If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff | debauchery decadence poetry | Charles Baudelaire | |
| 2b6ea62 | I have drawn the line, and I am still on this side of it. | Caroline Kettlewell | ||
| c64fff0 | It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. | Karen Russell | ||
| 8877223 | Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers! | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 44222b2 | Clock hands move noonward | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| ceadcc5 | Inside skull vast as outside skull | cosmopolitan-greetings | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 2d8dc94 | who were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality. . . | poetry truth | Allen Ginsberg | |
| fe6b5db | I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked... who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war... who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall... who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go, and went, leaving no b.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| d28c7fd | Millions of fathers in rain Millions of mothers in pain Millions of brothers in woe Millions of sisters nowhere to go Millions of daughters walk in the mud Millions of children wash in the flood A million girls vomit and groan Millions of families hopeless alone | refugees september-on-jessore-road war | Allen Ginsberg | |
| d3daedc | I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating ja.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| c4e66f2 | YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN | these-states | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 180bd2a | Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| edfe667 | robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 6771f6e | What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks! Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men! Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jail-hous.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| fb1e7f5 | I shudder, I see the love, I'm doomed, my heart melts again -- can't stand not to be in love, can't stand not to be melting with real tenderness, childlike need sweetnesses, that's what's wrong with me. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 4f150cd | LSD Shakti-snake settles like Gas into Consciousness | these-states | Allen Ginsberg | |
| b8c3379 | Forty feet long sixty feet high hotel Covered with old gray for buzzing flies Eye like mango flowing orange pus Ears Durga people vomiting in their sleep Got huge legs a dozen buses move inside Calcutta Swallowing mouthfuls of dead rats Mangy dogs bark out of a thousand breasts Garbage pouring from its ass behind alleys Always pissing yellow Hooghly water Bellybutton melted Chinatown brown puddles Coughing lungs Sound going down the sewer N.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 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. | beloved jack-kerouac love love-quotes lovers | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 4e82560 | Forget pleasure and Ambition | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 074c981 | A missle lost Unprogrammed | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 2db9ab4 | artificial trees, robot sofas, Ignorant cars- One Way Street to Heaven | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 97601c3 | Banks burn, boys die bullet-eyed, mothers scream realization the vast tonnage of napalm | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 05984fa | washing terror-waves round earth-globe back to suburb TV home night kitchens | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 97b3d64 | May no Evil Eye peek thru window, keyhole or gunsight at his white haired face! | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 79d1ef9 | the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 919b7e0 | Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God! | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| ba9bd51 | Sunlight bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3dbdd10 | If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt. | John Sandford | ||
| fe53b7b | So she made no secret about being gay?" "Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men." | John Sandford | ||
| 67fa139 | We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for caring what happens to other people, least of all crim.. | Henri Charrière | ||
| 1b8a095 | A man can get killed in there. | Robert Jordan | ||
| bc0332d | Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 62a6aa5 | How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? | Mitch Albom | ||
| b9724f7 | There are no random acts. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1c61594 | The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 789afeb | Everybody knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently,' Morrie said. 'So we kid ourselves about death,' I (Mitch) said. 'Yes, but there's a better approach. To know you're going to die and be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can be actually be more involved in your life while you're living. . . Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the da.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| afada94 | Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 17d6534 | All blessings do not bless the same. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0a16653 | EVERYONE JOINS A BAND IN THIS LIFE. You are born into your first one. Your mother plays the lead. She shares the stage with your father and siblings. Or perhaps your father is absent, an empty stool under a spotlight. But he is still a founding member, and if he surfaces one day, you will have to make room for him. As life goes on, you will join other bands, some through friendship, some through romance, some through neighborhoods, school, .. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 49a0b86 | Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b3e9f3a | Inclusive se convertian en motivo de diversion, a tal grado que durante su ninez Tita no diferenciaba bien las lagrimas de la risa de las del llanto. Para ella reir era una manera de llorar. | Laura Esquivel |