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When you get there, there isn't any there there.


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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop



Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.



A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.



You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.



You are all a lost generation.

You are all a lost generation.



America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.



In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.



Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.



What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.



That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.





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People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war



And so, let me repeat: who wants to believe - let them believe. But I do not want to believe, I want to know.

And so, let me repeat: who wants to believe - let them believe. But I do not want to believe, I want to know.



We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.

We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.



He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.



One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.

One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.



I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?

I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?



Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.



To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.



The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.

The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.



Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.




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