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Friday, January 27, 2006

The Mad Ones

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars . . . . "

~Jack Kerouac

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

kerouac...he was writing zen poetry when mccarthy was rooting up the commies.
jack was in love with life...sure he was a self promoter...but the conservative right crucified him for just this love.

i remember bill buckleys 1968 program on the hippies and bill was questioning the motives of the peace movement during the wierdest bloodiest wildest year...and buckley used the word 'purity'......

jack stopped the conversation and asked buckley what he said,

Purity...said wfb.

jacks response:

IT WAS PURE IN MY HEART.

four legs good said...

I love that, so I linked to you.

Anonymous said...

My daughter had this quote on her bedroom wall at home for years. Very proud of that young lady, I am.