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Charles Dickens
“Well, Pip,’ said Joe, ‘be it so or be it son’t, you must be a scholar afore you can be a oncommon one, I should hope! The king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ed, can’t sit and write his acts of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet – Ah!’ added Joe, with a shake of the head that was full of meaning. ‘and begun at A too, and worked his way to Z. And I know what that is to do, though I can’t say I’ve exactly done it.’
There was some hope in this piece of wisdom, and it rather encouraged me.
‘Whether common ones as to callings and earnings,’ pursued Joe reflectively, ‘mightn’t be the better of continuing for to keep company with common ones, instead of going out to play with oncommon ones – which reminds me to hope there were a flag, perhaps?’
‘No, Joe.’
‘(I’m sorry there weren’t a flag, Pip.) Whether that might be or mightn’t be, is a thing as can’t be looked into now, without putting your sister on the Rampage; and that’s a thing not to be thought of, as being done intentional. Lookee here, Pip, at what is said to you by a true friend. Which this to you the true friend say. If you can’t get to be oncommon through going straight, you’ll never get to do it through going crooked. So don’t tell no more on ‘em, Pip, and live well and die happy.’

Chapter 9”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Alan W. Watts
“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”
Alan Watts

Alan W. Watts
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
Alan Watts

Henry Miller
“Usred svojih sanjarija iznenada se zaustavlja i grabeći me uzbuđeno za ruku pokazuje jednog kita od žene, koja upravo sjeda na stolicu. »Eno moje danske pičke«, gunđa on. »Vidiš li to dupe? Dansko. Kako ta žena to voli! Ona me naprosto moli da je okinem. Dođi ovamo... Pogledaj je sad, sa strane! Pogledaj to dupe, molim te. Golemo je. Kažem ti, kad se ona popne na mene, jedva mogu da ga obuhvatim rukama. Zakloni mi vidik na cijeli svijet. Osjećam se kao mala buba, koja gmiže u njoj. Ne znam sam zašto na nju padam — valjda zbog tog dupeta. Toliko je nezgrapno. A kakve ima samo nabore! Takvo dupe ne možeš zaboraviti. Stvarnost... opipljiva stvarnost. Druge ti mogu dodijati ili ti mogu dati trenutačnu iluziju, ali ova — s tim svojim dupetom! — ta je neuništiva... To je kao da u postelju ideš s kakvim spomenikom na sebi.«
Str 111

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller
“Nimalo se, kažem, ne može nauditi velikoj knjizi ako se ponese u zahod. Samo beznačajne knjige trpe zbog toga. Samo beznačajne knjige služe brisanju guzice. Takva je knjiga Mali Cezar koja je sad prevedena na francuski i koja je izišla u biblioteci Passions. Dok okrećem stranice te knjige, čini mi se da sam opet kod kuće i da čitam naslove u novinama, da slušam one proklete radio aparate, da se vozim u starim krntijama, da pijem jeftini džin, da guram kukuruzni klip u dupe prostitutkama djevicama, da vješam Crnce i žive ih spaljujem. Da čovjek dobije sraćku. A to isto vrijedi za Atlantic M o n t h 1 y ili za bilo koji drugi mjesečnik, za Aldousa Huxleyja, Gertrudu Stein, Sinclaria Lewisa, Hemingwaya, Dos Passosa, Dreisera itd, itd... Ne čujem nikakvo zvono da zvoni u meni kad donesem te ptičice u WC. Povučem lančić i odoše u kanal. Niz Seinu pa u Atlantski ocean. Možda će za godinu dana opet izroniti — na obalama Coney Islan-da ili Midland Beacha ili Miamija, s mrtvim meduzama, puževima, račićima, rabljenim prezervativima, ružičastim toaletnim papirom, jučerašnjim novostima, sutrašnjim samoubojstvima ...
str. 58-59”
Henry Miller, Black Spring

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