Jack
hair fancy-cars oil
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume...
girl sweet dumb
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
wisdom phones people
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
hippie yawning people
Because the only people for me are the mad ones.
wisdom silence dharma-bums
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
good-night goodnight dream
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
wisdom panic want
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
girl sex real
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
catholic beatnik
I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
wisdom failure passion
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
rivers people bureaucracy
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
men world cry
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.
life girl wisdom
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
life lying thinking
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.