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“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“[...]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, On the Road

“Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.”
― Bob Dylan

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
― Bob Dylan

“I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”
― Bob Dylan

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”
― Bob Dylan

“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. ”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast”
― Bob Dylan

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”
― Bob Dylan (Lyric)

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”
― Bob Dylan

“Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...”
― Bob Dylan

“every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain”
― Bob Dylan

“You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.”
― Bob Dylan

“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 except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?”
― Bob Dylan, Lyrics, 1962-2001

“It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down.”
― Bob Dylan, Lyrics, 1962-2001

“You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe
But you're back were you belong”
― Bob Dylan

“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”
― Bob Dylan

“I wish that for just one time you could I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes... Then you'd know what a drag it is to see you.”
― Bob Dylan, Lyrics, 1962-1985

“There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

“You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.”
― Bob Dylan

“Where's your will to be weird?”
― Jim Morrison

“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
― Jim Morrison

“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”
― Jim Morrison

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
― Jim Morrison, Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”
― Jim Morrison

“Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.”
― Jim Morrison