February 2010
28 posts
“They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as...”
– Jack Kerouac , On the Road
January 2010
31 posts
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot...”
– Jack London, Call of the Wild
You Really Got a Hold on Me, She & Him, 2009
“There’s a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It’s not men who limit women, it’s not straights who limit gays, it’s not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don’t have the fucking nerve or...
“Rules? I don’t need your rules. I’m a rocker and I’m gonna...”
– Homer Simpson
“The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the ...
Sigh No More, Mumford and Sons, 2010
“I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m...”
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J.D Salinger - RIP 1919-2010
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” - Wilhelm Stekel, As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
Tom Robbins on John Steinbeck
Excerpt from Wild Ducks Flying Backwards. Bantam Books, September 2005
How would you evaluate John Steinbeck?
“Maybe what I admire most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his forty-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower. Choosing to travel among downtrodden dreamers rather than the tuxedoed tiddly-poops of the establishment, he brought both a rawboned American romanticism...
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““One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a...”
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““Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later?...”