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01 Jun 12 at 1 pm

Carl Solomon

(Source: emilyannherr, via fuckyeahbeatniks)

tags: quotes 

"I drifted into indiscipline and intellectual adventure that eventually became complete confusion."

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01 Jun 12 at 12 pm

Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami

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"We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit about our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology…But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone."

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29 May 12 at 4 pm

Eckhart Tolle

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tags: quotes 

"Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness."

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29 May 12 at 3 pm

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 

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"And now look at me: half-crazy with fear, driving 120 miles an hour across Death Valley in some car I never even wanted. You evil bastard! This is your work! You’d better take care of me, Lord…because if you don’t you’re going to have me on your hands."

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26 May 12 at 5 pm

Brandon Boyd

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"I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty."

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25 May 12 at 12 pm

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely.

“Everything must have a purpose?” asked God.

“Certainly,” said man.

“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God.

And He went away.

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
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25 May 12 at 10 am

tao te ching 

(Source: partiallycommitted, via theloversblog)

tags: quotes 

"if you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
if you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
if you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
if you want to be reborn,
let yourself die.
if you want to be given everything,
give everything up."

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24 May 12 at 3 pm

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - The Rolling Stone Interviews

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"I’ve said before, The Great Gatsby is possibly the Great American Novel, if you look at it as a technical achievement. It’s about 55,000 words, which was astounding to me. In Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, I tried to compete with that. It was one of the basic guiding principles for my writing. I’ve always competed with that. Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. Shoot, I couldn’t match 55,000 no matter how I chopped. There are few things that I read and say, ‘Boy, I wish I could write that.’ Damn few. The Book of Revelation is one. Gatsby is one."

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24 May 12 at 8 am

Post Office - Charles Bukowski

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tags: quotes 

"I wanted the whole world or nothing."

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23 May 12 at 1 pm

Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums

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tags: quotes  Jack kerouac 

"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running– that’s the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there."