"The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts."

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Source : Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.145, Penguin

Neal Cassady

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“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.”
“No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary.”
“What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?”
“The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.”

Source : "Pamela". Book by Carlo Goldoni, I. 14, 1750.
“I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.”

Source : "Kim Richards In Her Interview With Dr. Phil About Her Recent Arrest: ‘Is This An Intervention’?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2015.
“Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.462, Pan Macmillan
“Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time, which tends to come from the palette of black, grey or red.”
“I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.”

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