"The whole world's going to Hell. All we can do is sit back, watch,
and hope it doesn't fuck up our day too bad." - Brandon Dean
"How can you pee and not even care?" - Samantha Harris
"Poetry is more philosophical and more elevated than history." - Aristotle
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to
man as it is, infinite." - William Blake
"Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion."
- William Blake
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake
"Always be
ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you." - William Blake
"Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed & govern’d their Passions, or have no Passions, but because
they have cultivated their Understandings." - William Blake
"What is now proved was once only imagin’d." - William Blake
"Improvement makes strait roads; but
the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius." - William Blake
"The eagle
never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow." - William Blake
"O’er my Sins thou
sit & moan:
hast thou no sins of thy own?
O’er my Sins thou sit & weep,
and lull thy own Sins fast asleep." - William Blake
"No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge" - Jack Kerouac
"I wish I was free of that slaving meat wheel and safe in heaven dead."
- Jack Kerouac
"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 never yawn or say a commonplace thing,
but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding
like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"The best for man were not to have been born and not to have seen the
light of the sun; but, if once born (the second best for him is) to pass through the gates of death as speedily as may be."
- Theognis
On tanning - “To
burn your skin just to look cool and tough was nothing but an insult to the way you really looked. Your real strength, he thought, was in your blood and your brain cells.
They should be heating up their blood and brains...Why do they work so hard to be somebody else when they always wind
up with their own hideous selves?” - Yū Miri, Gold Rush
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