March 2012
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And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not...
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
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February 2012
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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something...
– William S. Burroughs, Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The...
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller that there is.
– William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals
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He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow...
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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There is no greater glory than to die for love.
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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It is a pity to still find a suicide that is not for love.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, are...
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, goddammit, everybody in the...
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had thought...
– Jack Keoruac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what...
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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I was surprised, as always, at how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it...
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road, The Original Scroll
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What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede...
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll