"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved [...] burn , burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
- Jack Kerouac
In all countries where women are not honoured in public, like sacred objects, even higher than priests, there will be no morals.
-Restif de la Bretonne (from The nights of Paris)
The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine's Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine's Day on February's shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.
-Tom Robbins
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
We are weighed down, every moment, by conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
-Charles Baudelaire (French poet)
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
-Knut Hamsun (Norwegian Novelist)
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German writer)
I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.
-James Joyce (Irish Novelist)
Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence- whether much that is glorious - whether all that is profound- does not spring from disease of thought...
-Edgar Allen Po-
The 'Muse' is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is the one you think of when you first awake.
-Roman Payne
Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.
-Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tradgedy.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald (American Writer)
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
-Jack Kerouac (American Writer)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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