“I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.”
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“I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.”
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“Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.”
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“I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.”
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“All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to...”
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“The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous y...”
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“The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.”
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“I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'”
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“Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.”
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“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”
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“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
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“All of life is a foreign country.”
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“All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.”
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“My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.”
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“A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
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“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”
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“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”
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“I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.”
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“My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.”
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“Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
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