I am the way and the truth
and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
I saw the best minds of my generation
destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical.
You must not
lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are
dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. If someone thinks that love and
peace is a cliché that
must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace
are eternal.
Sweet dreams
are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas.
Everybody’s looking for something.
Freeing yourself was one thing,
claiming ownership of that freed self was another. I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only
ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Never give
in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large
or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. I love to
see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch.
You've got to go out and kick ass.
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my
loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three
steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo,
plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in
slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my
arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did.
In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one
summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as
many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always
count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged
seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
Never gonna give you up. Never gonna
let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry.
Never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
I can hear
you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these
buildings down will hear all of us soon.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of
those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too
little. You don't understand! I coulda had
class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum,
which is what I am.
Do I
contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain
multitudes.)
You must be
the change you wish to see in the world. Change will not come if we wait for
some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.
Call me
Ishmael.
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