Big Sur Quotes

• Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

  Carter Burwell

  Crazy, People, Ends

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• It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

  Henry Miller

  Firsts, Bigs, Amen

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Stars, Spring

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.170, BookBaby

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• This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Spring, Writing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.276, Ballantine Books

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• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Failure, Passion

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• This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

  Richard Brautigan

  Country, Morning, Ocean

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Serenity, Tea

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

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• It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Hate, World

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.113, BookBaby

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• Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, True Power, America

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• I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Memories, Ocean, Yellowstone

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• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Girl, Wisdom

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

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• For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

  Henry Miller

  Dog, Travel, Cat

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• I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

  Trent Reznor

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

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• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Land, Nightmare

  Jack Kerouac (1992). “Pomes All Sizes: Pocket Poets Number 48”, p.158, City Lights Books

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• I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Race, Guilty

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.133, BookBaby

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