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- Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are…
- Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
- I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and…
- "What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
- It's all too much and not enough at the same time.
- Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs…
- I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.
- Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could…
- We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
- I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the…
- I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when…
- I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of…
- The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
- All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who…
- Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end…
- I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in…
- The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault,
- Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad…
- Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really…
- You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams,…
- Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
- All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
- All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
- All of life is a foreign country.
- I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night,…
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