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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

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GARY F EVANS... For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
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JANET KAGAN We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
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AKIRO KUROSAWA In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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CHARLES EDWARDS Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, in...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone.” A few people look up...
BETH REVIS There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
STEPHEN KING Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'...
CARA BUONO I sometimes wonder if I am mad, but then I wonder what it means to be mad. I mean, can you truly say...
J. "CYLO" G. Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine.
MAD MAGAZINE If Joan was mad, all Christendom was mad too; for people who believe devoutly in the existence of ce...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Groomed and clean cut are fine and dandy,
but I want to run with the mad ones;
the ones co...
MELODY LEE The sun had sunk and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light That melted soon in the...
M'DONALD CLARKE ("THE MAD POET") Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell, How...
M'DONALD CLARKE ("THE MAD POET") Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far Was pinned with a single star.
M'DONALD CLARKE ("THE MAD POET") While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star.
M'DONALD CLARKE ("THE MAD POET") From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected.
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LEWIS CARROLL But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
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CARA BUONO You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to ta...
BOB SAGET It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, w...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS There are three types of people in this world: the ones who keep you alive, the ones who would other...
ADAM GOTTBETTER 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: ...
LEWIS CARROLL Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Two kinds of women get under your skin. The ones who do damage, they don't feel good there but once ...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Jerry was a strong person, but a real gentle person at the same time. He was slow to get mad, but if...
JOHN PORTER Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing wh...
OLIVER MARKUS But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said t...
LEWIS CARROLL The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.
THOMAS DOLBY All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never...
M. C. GAINEY when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa...
DALLY SALAD It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.
ICE T. When it comes to your relationships, don't burn the bridge. When it comes to making career/brand shi...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me...
NEIL GAIMAN I like to smoke a couple of hours before the show, to get in the right mood... I get mad when people...
GREEN DAY Our players are mad, ... but it's good mad.
NANCY LOPEZ By the time you think people are thinking the way you think, you are crazy. By the time you think pe...
EPHDAN Time isn't the same for the mad and the blind.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' but that we become whom we e...
O ANNA NIEMUS The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they t...
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk...
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
J. G. STEDMAN During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
CHRIS CRUTCHER I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
JAMES PUREFOY Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON The most sad and dangerous people are the ones who are desperate to be like you. The people dress li...
EUGINIA HERLIHY Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin...
AKIROQ BROST Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
NANCY LOPEZ Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Why are you mad at me?
FRANK HERBERT Mad kings and mad bulls are not to be held by treaties and packthread.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
BLAISE PASCAL Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe...
ROBERT M. DRAKE I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves...
ALICE WALKER Mad can even doubt something that is wrong but fools never doubt the same wrong thing.
ANUJ SOMANY Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. ...
JODI PICOULT Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. ...
JODI PICOULT People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
AMY CLAMPITT People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The football gods are mad at us.
JOE GLENN i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
DALLY SALAD 'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the...
LEWIS CARROLL The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartene...
CRISS JAMI To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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JACK KEROUAC My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
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I sa...
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If you're not haun...
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JACK KEROUAC Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine...
JACK KEROUAC Buds in the snow
—the deadly fight
between two birds
JACK KEROUAC The other man, just as
lonesome as I am
In this empty universe
JACK KEROUAC Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine
JACK KEROUAC November the seventh
The last
Faint cricket
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JACK KEROUAC Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going...
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JACK KEROUAC I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.
JACK KEROUAC What is the universe
but a lot of waves
And a craving desire
is a wave…
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JACK KEROUAC beautiful insane
in the rain
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JACK KEROUAC Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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JACK KEROUAC Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
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JACK KEROUAC I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
JACK KEROUAC Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?
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JACK KEROUAC The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
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JACK KEROUAC The silence was an intense roar.
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JACK KEROUAC Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
JACK KEROUAC Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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JACK KEROUAC It all ends in tears anyway.
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JACK KEROUAC For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze...
JACK KEROUAC Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ...
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JACK KEROUAC Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
JACK KEROUAC And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th...
JACK KEROUAC I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
JACK KEROUAC I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...
JACK KEROUAC What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't k...
JACK KEROUAC We agreed to love each other madly.
JACK KEROUAC My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
JACK KEROUAC So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
JACK KEROUAC But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
JACK KEROUAC Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't...
JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
JACK KEROUAC And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
JACK KEROUAC ...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
JACK KEROUAC ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
JACK KEROUAC ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
JACK KEROUAC I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
JACK KEROUAC I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
JACK KEROUAC He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...
JACK KEROUAC And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...
JACK KEROUAC Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ...
JACK KEROUAC It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowl...
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