"What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?"

-- Jack Kerouac

#Wisdom Quotes #Stores Quotes

“And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.”

Source : "Song: 'Jugband Blues'". 1968.
“I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.”
“One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect.”
“I was really struck by all these people who had committed suicide. There are videos of all of them talking about why they're so happy to shed their human existence and exit their "vehicles" and I thought, "Why is that?"”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.”
“After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.”

Source : "A blessing in disguise" by Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2005.
“For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. Itâ€™s whatâ€™s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; itâ€™s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you canâ€™t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people wonâ€™t believe it ever happened.”
“The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.”

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