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  • #1
    Jack Kerouac
    “It's all a sea, I swim out of its in the afternoons.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “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

  • #3
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #4
    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #5
    Jack Kerouac
    “Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #6
    Bill Hicks
    “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

  • #7
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “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

  • #8
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #9
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #10
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.”
    Nabokov Vladimi, Lolita

  • #11
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Words without experience are meaningless.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #12
    James Joyce
    “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

  • #13
    James Joyce
    “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #14
    James Joyce
    “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #15
    James Joyce
    “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

  • #16
    James Joyce
    “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

  • #17
    James Joyce
    “I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #18
    James Joyce
    “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

  • #19
    James Joyce
    “Let my country die for me.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: war

  • #20
    James Joyce
    “When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #21
    James Joyce
    “Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: time

  • #22
    James Joyce
    “Thought is the thought of thought.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #23
    James Joyce
    “You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.”
    James Joyce , Ulysses

  • #24
    James Joyce
    “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

  • #25
    James Joyce
    “He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #26
    Lawrence Durrell
    “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

  • #27
    Don DeLillo
    “All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. ”
    Don DeLillo, White Noise

  • #28
    Don DeLillo
    “It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”
    Don DeLillo, White Noise

  • #29
    Don DeLillo
    “It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.”
    Don DeLillo, White Noise

  • #30
    Don DeLillo
    “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



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