“I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”
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“Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don’t look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by. Trails are like that: you’re floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you’re struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak… just like life.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
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