I felt free and therefore I was free.
I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you'd love those beautiful dancing girls if you knew they would live forever as beautiful as they are? (p. 173)
I could have made my whole life like that morning just on the strength of pure understanding and willingness to live and go along, God it was all the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me in i...
I bless you, all living things, I bless you in the endless past, I bless you in the endless present, I bless you in the endless future, amen.
February dawn -- frost on the pathWhere I paced all winter.
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and h...
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
America is a lonely crock of shit...
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
Ah the mad hearts of all of us.
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The only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing.. but burn, b...
Don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.
What do you want out of life? I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.I don't know, she said. Just wait on tables and try to get along. She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told...
We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.
Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two piercing eyes--the holy con-man with the shining mind, and the sorrowful poetic con-man w...
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed...