"Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits."

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Source : Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.220, Penguin

Neal Cassady

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“Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!”
“So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.”
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
“Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.”
“The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.”

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“The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.”
“Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described; their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law; for every heart is in God's hands.”
“One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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