"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton
"I have seen the great minds of my generation destroyed by madness..." - Allen Ginsberg
"Theatre is life. Film is art. Television is furniture."
-anonymous
"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
- John Ciardi
"The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love."
--Don Rose
"In heaven and earth no spot to hide; bliss belongs to one who knows that things are empty and that a person too is nothing."
-Bukko
"Every thought and feeling must flower for them to live and die. Flowering of everything in you, the ambition, the greed, the hate, the joy, the passion - there is their death and freedom. It is only in freedom that anything can flourish, not in suppression, in control and discipline, these only pervert, corrupt. Flowering and freedom is goodness and all virtue."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened." - Hunter S. Thompson
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality." - James Joyce
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Belief & Technique
For Modern Prose
List of essentials
By Jack Kerouac
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from the bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical, and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest in the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop be see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date embalzoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to see and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of character in the bleak inhumane loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. Youre a Genuis all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
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