Neal Cassady quotes
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“Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.”
-- Neal CassadySource : Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.220, Penguin
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“Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.”
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“Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.”
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“We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!”
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“Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.”
-- Neal CassadySource : Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.71, Penguin
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“I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.”
-- Neal CassadySource : Neal Cassady (1971). “The First Third”, p.47, City Lights Books
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“I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.”
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“Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.”
-- Neal CassadySource : Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.220, Penguin
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“The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.”
-- Neal CassadySource : Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.145, Penguin
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“And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.”
-- Neal Cassady
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