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Neal Cassady Quotes

Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.

Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.

Neal Cassady
Soul, Events, Areas

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

Neal Cassady
World, Body, Thirds

And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.

Neal Cassady

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

Neal Cassady
Thinking, Sometimes, Drink
Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.220, Penguin

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Neal Cassady
Art, Spring, Guarantees
Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.71, Penguin

I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.

Neal Cassady
Children, Hipster, Simple

Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.

Neal Cassady
Airplane, Light, Car

The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.

Neal Cassady
Hurt, Lying, Sun
Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.145, Penguin

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

Neal Cassady
Childhood, Way, Replica
Neal Cassady (1971). “The First Third”, p.47, City Lights Books

Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.

Neal Cassady
Thinking, Each Day
Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.220, Penguin

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