Ivory tower Quote by Jack Kerouac

“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows.…

— Mo Hayder

“High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”

— Jonathan Swift

“I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying.…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“I feel The Fear coming on, and the only cure for that is to chew up a fat black wad of blood-opium about the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.”

— Roman Payne

“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.”

— Graham Greene

“The greatest drug of all, my dear, was not one of those pills in so many colors that you took over the years, was…

— Andrew Holleran