"If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life."

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Source : "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

Ben Gibbard

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“Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.”

Source : "The superpowers' balance sheet". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.
“I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.”
“It became like a symbolic thing, to be â€œan artist.â€ After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.”
“One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.”
“Man must begin to the unitary principle of man - knowing that there are not separate men or separate individuals, but hat the whole man idea is one. He must know that all mankind is connected with every other part of mankind, all geared together by the one omnipresent Light of God which centers all as ONE and motivates all as ONE. Until man knows that separation from God is impossible, even for one second, he does not begin to have knowledge.”
“We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and more important: I remind myself to find the pleasure in this moment, a time in which the red sky passes to black, children create unanticipated rhymes, and the stars fall closer to earth.”
“Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.”
“There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.”

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