"Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit."

Saroyan, William on doctors   

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

Ginsberg, Allen on poetry and poets   

"I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each."

Ginsberg, Allen on poetry and poets   

"All of life is a foreign country."

Kerouac, Jack on life
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"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"

Kerouac, Jack on apathy
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"Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions"

Proust, Marcel on decisions
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"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

Balzac, Honore De on equality
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"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else."

Baudelaire, Charles on art   

"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

Saroyan, William on wisdom
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"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

Burroughs, William S. on desperation
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