“It must be a movement then, an actuality of the possible as possible.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“The candle aimed its spear of light at Heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. The candle grew shorter and shorter.”
― The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
― The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
“The Village would remain the center of the black community in Manhattan through the 1800s, home to the first successful black theater and black newspapers in the country.”
― The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
― The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
“He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“a world soul he believes can resist the deadening assaults of modern corporate conformism.”
― The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
― The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
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