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At one point the driver said, "For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there." Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives. |
~ Jack Kerouac ~ |
With a mental effort, he grabbed hold of his thoughts and braked them to a stop. There was something new here, factors he hadn't counted on. He kept reassuring himself there was an explanation for everything, once you had your facts straight. |
~ Harry Harrison ~ |
I've seen fire and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end. I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend. But I always thought that I'd see you again. |
~ James Taylor ~ |
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life. |
~ Jack Kerouac ~ |
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. |
~ Edward Albee ~ |
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. |
~ Richard Steele ~ |
Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind? |
~ George Berkeley ~ |
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. |
~ Richard Steele ~ |
We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. |
~ Jack Kerouac ~ in ~ On the Road ~ |
We — Russia — want to be a nation of peace. Alas, few people would call us that now. But let's at least not become a nation of frightened silent people. Of cowards who pretend not to notice the aggressive war against Ukraine unleashed by our obviously insane czar. I cannot, do not want and will not remain silent watching how pseudo-historical nonsense about the events of 100 years ago has become an excuse for Russians to kill Ukrainians, and for Ukrainians to kill Russians while defending themselves. It's the third decade of the 21st century, and we are watching news about people burning down in tanks and bombed houses. We are watching real threats to start a nuclear war on our TVs. I am from the USSR myself. I was born there. And the main phrase from there — from my childhood — was "fight for peace." I call on everyone to take to the streets and fight for peace. |
~ Alexei Navalny ~ |
A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth. |
~ Edward Albee ~ |
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. |
~ Edward Albee ~ |
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But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. ~ Jack Kerouac
What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind. ~ Jack Kerouac
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 didn't know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future. ~ Jack Kerouac
I am skeptical about preventing wars. I doubt if they can be prevented. There will always be wars. Judging by past experiences, working for peace now would be as ineffective as ever. It's a law of nature. ~ Wilhelm Frick (born March 12)
Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years. ~ Wilhelm Frick (born March 12)
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour. ~ Edward Albee
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. ~ Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face from The Dark Knight.
It's not about what I want, it's about what's fair! You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong. The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Fair. ~ Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face from The Dark Knight.
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator. ~ William Buckland
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments. ~ William Buckland
God is indeed dead.
He died of self-horror
when He saw the creature He had made
in His own image.
~ Irving Layton
When you argue with your inferiors,
you convince them of only one thing:
they are as clever as you.
~ Irving Layton
My neighbour
doesn't want to be loved
as much as
he wants to be envied.
~ Irving Layton
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Richard Steele
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. ~ Richard Steele
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we;
Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.
~ Mary Howitt
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers—
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours.
~ Mary Howitt
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is the last.
~ George Berkeley
Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
~ George Berkeley
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ~ Jack Kerouac in On the Road
The gods too are fond of a joke. ~ Socrates
You've still got the same old words that have been killing people since the birth of the human race. A "cowardly peace," that's a good one. Peace means not being at war, not fighting. How can you have a cowardly not-fighting. What are you trying to hide with this semantic confusion? Your real reasons? I can't blame you for being ashamed of them — I would be. Why don't you just come out and say you are keeping the war going because you enjoy killing? Seeing things die makes you and your murderers happy, and you want to make them happier still! ~ Harry Harrison
We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment. ~ Harry Harrison
You're not a homicidal, I checked that on your record before I came out after you. That is why I know you will join the Corps and get a great deal of pleasure out of going after the other kind of criminal who is sick, not just socially protesting. The man who can kill and enjoy it. ~ Harry Harrison
And of course the most amazing thing about reality, which we should never taken for granted, is that we can understand any of it. ~ Tony Piro - Calamities of Nature - (March 12, 2012 - Fairies - final episode - alt.text)
I've noticed that there is not necessarily a great relationship between what the majority of critics have to say and what is actually true. |
~ Edward Albee ~ |
People take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent or stupid — but most people don't take the trouble. |
~ Edward Albee ~ |
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