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#1

“It's all a sea, I swim out of its in the afternoons.”
― Jack Kerouac

#2

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#3

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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#4

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#5

“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”
― Jack Kerouac

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#6

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
― Bill Hicks

tags: humour, philosophy

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#7

“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things

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#8

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#9

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#10

“I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.”
― Nabokov Vladimi, Lolita

tags: exist, imagine, need, reader

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#11

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#12

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

tags: from-ulysses

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#13

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: history, truth

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#14

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#15

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: fiction, first-lines, ireland, opening-lines, shaving

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#16

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#17

“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#18

“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: food, james-joyce, meat, offal, ulysses

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#19

“Let my country die for me.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: war

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#20

“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#21

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: time

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#22

“Thought is the thought of thought.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#23

“You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.”
― James Joyce , Ulysses

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#24

“I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.”
― James Joyce

tags: america, immigration, joyce, ulysses

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#25

“He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: joyce, mind, ulysses

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#26

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
― Lawrence Durrell

tags: confirmation, reading, reality

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#27

“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. ”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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#28

“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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#29

“It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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#30

“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: sadness

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