"Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious."

-- Jack Kerouac

#Wisdom Quotes #Mind Quotes #Flesh Quotes

“People hate politicians. And I can understand why.”
“Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.31, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.693, Simon and Schuster
“Personally I was just sick of the mimicry of American culture that was going on because it wasn't natural for us. We had grown up listening to reggae music in our communities. People were enjoying what we were doing with out music - we didn't have to work to sell it to them.”
“Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.”
“Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.”
“We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.”
“I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.”

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