Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
Henry Miller
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
-Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody but my own confusion.
-Jack Kerouac
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
-Albert Einstein
Well I hope that someday buddy
we have peace in our loves
Together or apart
Alone or with or wives
And we can stop our whoring
And pull the smiles inside
And light it up forever
And never go to sleep
My best darn beaten brother
-Johnny Cash
Humanity has advanced when it has advanced not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-Tom Robbins
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-Hunter S. Thompson
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
-Hunter S. Thompson
"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas...with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
- Hunter S. Thompson
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
-Tom Robbins
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
-Henry Miller
"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 and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww."
-Jack Kerouac
To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
-e e cummings
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
-Bob Dylan
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time.
-Jack Kerouac
-SMM
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"A man who fights for his ideals is a man who is alive." -Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.
That's my bookplate. The glue is ancient and it doesn't stick all that well, but I put it inside all my hardcovers. I've never actually read Don Quixote, but I know the gist of it.
Now for some levity. As the great Tom Petty once sung, "I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down." Johnny Cash sung it once also, if my brain is correct.
So I'm off to hold up the currency exchange at gunpoint.
Life is an adventure and those who search for its conection reap her dividends.
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