Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
Jack Kerouac
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Sun shines on my back as I walk away Sun shines on my chest and I return The fall air is c... BRENT M. JONES The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee... JACK KEROUAC Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life... C. JOYBELL C. Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. ZENA WYNN Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery. AMIT RAY Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t... ANTONIA PERDU He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can... ELIZABETH GILBERT You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? May... STEPHEN CHBOSKY To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, hear... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione. JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. JACK KEROUAC Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend... CRAIG GROESCHEL You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh... MARY ESSELMAN Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?" Allie considered this. "Meaning?" "Meaning, ... NEAL SHUSTERMAN ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a... JACK KEROUAC Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ... APURVA GAGLANI Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry wit... DANIELLE STEEL If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi... GARY RUDZ Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass. BERNARD CORNWELL You miss a lot of a person’s life when you don’t keep in touch. Maybe that’s the point. BRYANT A. LONEY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. What's Your Road, Man? JACK KEROUAC We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ... SARAH VOWELL I am at peace with myself. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one tha... ANTHONY HOROWITZ You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL As the master creators on this planet, we can improve conditions for all and learn greater respect f... BRYANT MCGILL Write only if you wish to read it again and again... RAMANA PEMMARAJU I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the im... RICHARD WRIGHT While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state... CHRISTINA ENGELA We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of... DANIEL YANEZ You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ... K.A. LINDE But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving? "Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro... TRACY WARD Daily life is an ongoing adaptation process of imprinting our memory’s storage center with useful ... KILROY J. OLDSTER After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Question: Where do I go from here? Answer: Out of your comfort zone. In the direction of your d... IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars... MADELINE L'ENGLE I’ll never let go of you again,” she whispered. “I swear it. DIANNA HARDY One thing God has been showing me is that I'm not called to save the world, just to point those He p... J.R. RIM I've matured since joining United, on and off the field. WAYNE ROONEY I hold myself to a high standard on and off the field. JARED GOFF You can improve your overall vibration just by improving your paradigm. For example, if you are hope... HINA HASHMI I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon. BRETT FAVRE Quit telling me that "you haven't done anything wrong." Most people waste their lives trying to do n... JEFF DIXON-TERROR IN THE KINGDOM This whole conversation was turning into a twisted version of Abbot & Costello's Who's on First. KELLY MORAN Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went s... RICK RIORDAN In your dreams, you will find in the ocean of your memory that people from the past will come and vi... GARY F EVANS... In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser. JACK KEROUAC I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, li... JOSEPH CONRAD In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are copiously dispatched over the hea... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretche... EMMA LAZARUS The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion. SARAH NOFFKE If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to... AMIT RAY ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen... RAYMOND E. FEIST This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback) "I know t... AMAZON REVIEWER Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe... HARUKI MURAKAMI I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the... JACK KEROUAC Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader.... OWEN WISTER Two things are very important in life: firstly, the life we have, and secondly, securing an eternal ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It felt a little as if we'd found a script that had been written just for us, and we were reading th... NANCY GARDEN Nothing will change if you worry. Rather it may aggravate negative emotions within you. Don't waste ... MADDY MALHOTRA The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job. ZIG ZIGLAR We Can Is Always Better Than I Can...!!! TUSHAR PATE My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20. ATTICUS ROSS Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go. STEFANOS LIVOS The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?” Your strengt... CHARLES F. GLASSMAN I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera ... DAVID ZUCKER The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS I, a singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional tense. JOHN GREEN Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
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