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- John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said…
- 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…
- Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that…
- 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…
- and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
- In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the…
- You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean…
- I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I…
- And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
- Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans,…
- I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
- Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
- But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards…
- ..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
- 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.…
- God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was…
- Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
- Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They…
- I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I…
- I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...
- 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…
- Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men…
- Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there…
- It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.
- It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that…
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