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“Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.”
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
“You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― The Turtles of Tasman
― The Turtles of Tasman
“But . . .” said Sissy. Sissy said “but” while sitting on her butt on a butte. The poetic possibilities of the English language are endless.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: A Novel
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: A Novel
Hope’s 2025 Year in Books
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