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the world of raging action and folly and also of great gentle sweetness seen through the keyhole of his eye

Jack Kerouac

#jack kerouac #on the road #beat authors #beat poets #words #quotes #daily quotes #quote #quotations #travel poetry #travel #this is actually part of the introduction to big sur! #but it wasn't attributed to any particular piece of writing so who knows #also big sur is making me sick to my stomach #i read a line where he goes in their mind im 26 hitchhiking across america #but here I am at 40 jaded and bored in nice accomodations #and i teared up at WORK #pls i cant take it

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Fungi have as much right to life as I do. They know what they want, Bill. Damned if I do anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

#kurt vonnegut #vonnegut #breakfast of champions #vonnegut quote #quotation #words #quotes #daily quotes #quote #quotations #book quotes #book #book quotations #books #i feel like this still counts as science writing but thats okay #of course I had to come back with a vonnegut quote

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I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant. Come to think of it, this might be a good place to start.

Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell, Notes of a Biology Watcher

#lewis thomas #the lives of a cell #words #quotes #daily quotes #quote #quotations #science writing #science quotes #novels #novel writing #biology writing #biology #science #book quotes #book quotations #yes of course i posted this its almost an exact paraphrase of my favorite carl sagan quote #sorry for being gone so long! #I swear I'vee been reading a lot while I was gone though #so hopefully I'll have more to post now!

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"I want to insist that our being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?"

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

#ocean vuong #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #words #quotes #daily quotes #quote #quotations #book quotes #book #books #novels #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt books

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"I guess what I mean is sometimes I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?"

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

#ocean vuong #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #words #quotes #daily quotes #quote #quotations #book quotes #book #books #novels #lgbtq #lgbt books #i finally read this book and yes #it was as good as tumblr thought it was

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"The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel."

Margaret Edson, Wit

#margaret edson #wit #plays #playwright #poet #poem #poetry #words #daily quotes #quotations #book quotes #quotation #quote #quotes #cancer #books about cancer #john donne #listen if you've read wit then u know donne deserves a tag

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I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us?

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

#anne carson #autobiography of red #anne carson quote #poetry #poem #Poems #poet #book #books #book quotes #words #quotes #quote #quotations #quotation #Daily Quotes #anyway pls just read this book i am begging you #i need someone who understands to read this and #cry scream and throw up about it with me thanks

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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

#anne carson #anne carson quote #autobiography of red #poetry #poem #Poems #poet #book #books #book quotes #words #Daily Quotes #quotes #quote #quotations #quotation #the absolute mastery anne carson has of making simple words #and phrases into the most #deep cutting emotional sentences is insane

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As in childhood we live sweeping close to the sky and now, what dawn is this.

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

#anne carson #autobiography of red #poetry #poem #Poems #poet #words #quotes #quote #book quotes #quotations #quotation #book of poetry #anne carson quote #Daily Quotes #miss carson i just have to ask #why would you say something like that?? #in one of the most heartbreaking #disgustingly heartwrenching books ive ever read #i have never felt so upset for a character in years #anyway its also some of the most beautiful writing ever #idk what youd expect from anne carson that was perfection #anyway if u like this blog read autobiography of red

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Things are so hard to figure when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

Jack Kerouac, On The Road, The Original Scroll

#page after page of surrealist free association that doesnt make sense to anybody #except for someone that has blown jack #Jack Kerouac #ON THE ROAD #on the road original scroll #Beat Generation #beat poets #beat authors #neal cassady #Allen Ginsberg #words #Daily Quotes #quotes #quote #book quotes #honestly real #thinking about the absolutely scathing review allen ginsberg gave this orginal scroll #i almost cried laughing the first time i read what he had to say about it #hurt a little too like damn thats my favorite book asdjuasdgujd #and i quote #UNREAL #get his ass

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”Oh, well we could talk all night and have a good time and eat pizza and drink wine and by God we will when I get travelin money. Meanwhile, sweetie, be cool, be blessed, be relaxed, like roses in the rain here I see out my window right now.”

Jack Kerouac, in a letter to Carolyn Cassady, 1954

#Jack Kerouac #carolyn cassady #neal cassady #Letters #personal letters #Beat Generation #beat poets #beat authors #Allen Ginsberg #love letters #1950s #words #quotes #quote #book quotes #book #books #off the road #ON THE ROAD #listen they were all sleeping together and in love dont ask #jacks letter literally make me cry all the time like #like damn idk if people will ever love me that much

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It’s too long that I have been alone It’s too long that I’ve sat up in bed without anyone to touch on the knee, man or woman I don’t care what anymore, I want love I was born for I want you with me now

Allen Ginsberg, Message, 1958

#Allen Ginsberg #Ginsberg #poetry #poem #Poems #poet #Beat Generation #beat poets #love #Love poem #Love Poetry #words #Daily Quotes #quotes #quote #quotations #quotation #neal cassady #Jack Kerouac #ON THE ROAD #love quotes #i have been in so deep with these fucking guys lately #like ive always loved otr and allen's poems #but i also just read off the road by carolyn cassidy #and ho boy do i know too much #its becoming a hyperfixation at this point its abd #anyway!! #enjoy the fruits of my madness

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    “We shake hands,” she said. “We shake hands and part friends,” she said. “That’s what happens next.”

    “All right,” he said. “Remember me from time to time. Remember how much I loved you.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Long Walk to Forever

#kurt vonnegut #i usually talk at the end of my tags but everyone needs to know #that vonnegut introduces this story as being a description of an afternoon with his wife-to-be #<3 #long walk to forever #vonnegut #Vonnegut quote #words #Daily Quotes #quotes #quote #book quotes #quotations #quotation #short stories #love #love story #love quotes #breakup #breakup quotes #yeah its very sweet and romantic #but its still no who am i this time sorry! #some of us are weirder than that!

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If you go back through history, you’ll find that the people who have been the most eager to rule, to make laws, to enforce the laws and to tell everybody exactly how God Almighty wants things here on Earth - those people have forgiven themselves and their friends for anything and everything. But they have been absolutely disgusted and terrified by the natural sexuality of common men and women.

Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

#kurt vonnegut #welcome to the monkey house #vonnegut #Vonnegut quote #Daily Quotes #short stories #quotes #quote #book quotes #quotations #quotation #words #book #books #novels #get their ass kurt!

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I just can’t help it, living the way I’ve lived all my life. The only experiences I’ve had have been in crazy dreams of movie stars. When I met someone nice in real life, I feel as though I were in some kind of big bottle, as though I couldn’t touch the person, no matter how hard I tried.

Kurt Vonnegut, Who Am I This Time?

#kurt vonnegut #who am i this time #welcome to the monkey house #vonnegut #Vonnegut quote #short stories #quotes #quote #book quotes #quotations #quotation #book #books #words #Daily Quotes #hi hello if you like vonnegut at all go read this short story right now #its one of the best things I've ever read #I'm probably biased live my life through references to media and my wife is autistic #but good god what a perfect description of love HELLO #its so sweet

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Tell me what it is to be the thing rooted in shadow. To be the thing not touched by light (no, that’s not it) - to not even need the light? I envy; I envy that.

Notes on the Below, Ada Limón

#notes on the below #ada limón #the carrying #Envelopes of Air #words #Daily Quotes #quotes #quote #quotations #quotation #poetry #poem #poet #all i can say is go and buy the carrying thank u

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Perhaps we are always hurtling our bodies towards the thing that will obliterate us, begging for love from the speeding passage of time, and so maybe, like the dog obedient at my heels, we can walk together peacefully, at least until the next truck comes.

The Leash, Ada Limón

#the leash #ada limón #the carrying #words #Daily Quotes #quotes #quote #quotations #quotation #poetry #poem #Poems #poet #love #love quotes #Love poem #Love Poetry #Envelopes of Air #shes just like me fr #i adore ada limon like she really does get it and spits it back on the page in stunning fashion #please read more!