All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.
I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.
Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.
February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.
And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.
I like it because its ugly
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -
I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.
The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.
Down in Denver, all I did was die.
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".
...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
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