Neal Cassady Quotes

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

  Neal Cassady

  World, Body, Thirds

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

  Neal Cassady

  Soul, Events, Areas

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

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

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  Thinking, Sometimes, Drink

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

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

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  Art, Spring, Guarantees

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

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

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  Children, Hipster, Simple

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• 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.

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  Airplane, Light, Car

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

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  Hurt, Lying, Sun

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

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

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  Thinking, Each Day

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

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• 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

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