"Comparisons are odious." 55
"The roar of the silence was like a was of diamond waves going through the liquid porches of our ears, enough to soothe a man a thousand years." 71
"Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall." 99
"I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry?" 122
"Why is he so mad about white tiled sinks and 'kitchen machinery' he calls it? People have good hearts whether or not they live like Dharma Bums." 132
"Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live." 137
"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted." 148
"...the roaring silence of the diamond." 157
"I want my Dharma Bums to have springtime in their hearts." 204
"Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious." 238
"To the children and the innocent it's all the same." 244
Reminds me of the original American Dharma bum Whitman: "I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,/And accrue what I hear into myself. . ."
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