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Ironically, the kind of open devotion Thompson made famous in Campaign Trail: ’72—when he pined for George McGovern and crisscrossed the country arguing for his election to the White House, like Kafka’s Land Surveyor searching for
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“Illusions are like mistresses. We can have many of them without tying ourselves down to responsibility. But truth insists on marriage. Once a person embraces truth, he is in its ruthless, but gentle, grasp.”—Rabazar Tarzs”
― Be Here Now
― Be Here Now
“history becomes fiction in the…act of being written down”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“finally I went over to an old cook in the doorway of the kitchen and asked him “Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?” (Bodhidharma was the Indian who brought Buddhism eastward to China.) “I don’t care,” said the old cook, with lidded eyes, and I told Japhy and he said, “Perfect answer, absolutely perfect. Now you know what I mean by Zen.”
― The Dharma Bums:
― The Dharma Bums:
“And suddenly I realized that he knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that.”
― Be Here Now
― Be Here Now
“You can't live in this world but there's no where else to go.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
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