It’s not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It’s nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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It’s not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It’s nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn’t read the one until after I’d written the other.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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