"I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Peter Orner

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“Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.”
“I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.”
“Health is...a blessing that money cannot buy.”
“You can't be said to make a choice when you only have one option.”
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

Source : On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)
“As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?”
“You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find”
“There is a pride in speaking this language.”

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