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To the person who posts the best quote from a Beat generation writer...contest will end tomorrow at noon.
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“I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.” Ginsberg
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"I smoke marijuana every chance I get." -Allen Ginsberg
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Good call Florist.
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"Fudge (rhymes with duck) it."
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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." -Jack Kerouac
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"Who are all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me?"-Jack Kerouac
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All from jack kerouac
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
"The only truth is music.”
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
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“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
- Ginsberg
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“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
-William S. Burroughs-
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“I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent, they didn't give a damn.”-Kerouac
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To me it doesn't get better than this:“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”
- William S. Burroughs -
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wow I really got voted down for quoting Ginsberg? Lighten up http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/america.html...get it? Lighten up? ah forget it.
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"standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power"- gregory corso
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"l was born to remember a song about love - on a hill a butterfly makes a cup that I drink from, walking over a bridge of flowers."
Orlovsky, Second Poem
Orlovsky, Second Poem
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"l was born to remember a song about love - on a hill a butterfly makes a cup that I drink from, walking over a bridge of flowers."
Orlovsky, Second Poem
Orlovsky, Second Poem
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When it comes to words, I believe less is more...With that said:
"Love is all"
-Jack Kerouac
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“Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.”
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"Strip your Psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass."- Burroughs
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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."-Jack Kerouac
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
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"Follow you're inner moonlight, don't hide the madness" Allen Ginsberg from an interview in Michael Schumacher's "On Being a Writer" this was just a compilation and the quote first appeared in readers digest. it is advice to authors on being true to themselves but I think its implications go beyond just writing. let your freak flag fly
sry 4 typos. sent from phone
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"the mindborn worlds fled, and the mind turned off:a madness, or a beginning?"
Buddhist New Year Song
By Diane di Prima
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@Phyto said: "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
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@forbin1 said:
@mfhgreyboyHe needs a 29th?
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"To hell with facts! We need stories!" -Ken Kesey
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I was there, I saw it. I saw women thrown down on first avenue...
- Burroughs
- Burroughs
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"Hello, I'm Jack Kerouac."- Jack Kerouac, almost certainly at some point in his life
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"If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both."-Gregory Corso
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@me_no_are_no_nice_guy said:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s72fihyZTQo/UGs7z3VqBzI/AAAAAAAAGEU/n9bXrGTpCXA/s1600/jumping-through-hoops.jpgHaha, certainly one way to look at it. I'm trying to give everyone a fair shot at a ticket rather than leave it up to chance.
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@forbin1 said: @IntoYesterday said:Yeah, I am still looking.@forbin1 said:@mfhgreyboyHe needs a 29th?
Last I read he was still looking..
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"The prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines" - Kerouac
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"I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane."-Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac
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"Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is an anathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus."-Drugstore Cowboy
Technically might not count, but it is a perfectly cast William F. Burroughs.
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"Who are all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me?"-Jack Kerouac, on the final gathering/Snyders going away party
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@mfhgreyboy said: "Who are all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me?"Ha, ok...I doubt one ticket can be split in half, so why don't people go down the thread first to see what was repeated?
-Jack Kerouac, on the final gathering/Snyders going away party
same with @Chilly
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@ypehmish said: @mfhgreyboy said:My bad. Here's another, better, one"Who are all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me?"Ha, ok...I doubt one ticket can be split in half, so why don't people go down the thread first to see what was repeated?
-Jack Kerouac, on the final gathering/Snyders going away party
same with @Chilly
"I want to create wilderness out of empire."
-Gary Snyder
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@mfhgreyboy said: @ypehmish said:Nice, I'd hate for someone on here not to get a fair chance at this pretty awesome offer, and not get win it because of an overlooked repeat.@mfhgreyboy said:My bad. Here's another, better, one"Who are all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me?"Ha, ok...I doubt one ticket can be split in half, so why don't people go down the thread first to see what was repeated?
-Jack Kerouac, on the final gathering/Snyders going away party
same with @Chilly
"I want to create wilderness out of empire."
-Gary Snyder
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Sure I know he isn't technically BEAT - but what the hay - my favorite quote ever."what great fellows those old dogs were, they got me past
days like razors and nights full of rats; and women
bargaining like auctioneers from hell." - Charles Bukowski
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"To rebel! That is the immediate objective of poets! We can not wait and will not be held back...The "poetic marvelous" and the unconscious are the true inspirers of rebels and poets."-Philip Lamantia
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"If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both." -Gregory Corso
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Might not fit the criteria, but...."What'll it be, Normie?"
"Just the usual Coach. I'll have a froth of beer and a snorkel."
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And just in case the CB doesnt count:"This is just shit. It's happening. No blame. Happening and on the rise it would appear. What can we do to delay it? Probably zilch. To stop it? Likely less. But to survive it? Now that sounds more promising. There is evidence of bad shit having been survived before. Ancient Advice Left in cave by Wise French Caveman: "When Bigbad Shit come, no run scream hide. Try paint picture of it on wall. Drum to it. Sing to it. Dance to it. This give you handle on it." So Twister is my try." - Ken Kesey
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"I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children."-Jack Kerouac
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"go f*** yourself with your atom bomb" - Ginsberg
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@Sprachtor said: "If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both." -Gregory CorsoAnd I was beginning to think I'd be the only one to quote GC.