Words to Love by

These words mean something to me, so maybe they will mean something to you, too. Some are deep, some are sassy, and all are worth reading. 


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"Schooled in the raw road of night, Dean was come into the world to see it."
 -Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

-Walt Whitman

"No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."

-Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind

"My candle burns at both ends;

It will not last the night;

But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -

It gives a lovely light!"

-Edna St. Vincent Millay




"He wondered that graves ever made people consider life in vain. Somehow he could find nothing hopeless in having lived. All the broken columns and clasped hands and doves and angels meant romances."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"I wish I could drink like a lady.

I can take one or two at the most.

Three and I'm under the table,

Four and I'm under the host!"

-Dorothy Parker

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” 

- Jack Kerouac

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." 

-Dean Martin

"She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very dangerous to live even one day."

 -Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Dive into an endless maze of wonder and surpirse, then you too will have no end and can exist forever. Everything is strange and undefinable. Let it dazzle and confound you! Tear your prison bars aside and batter down the walls! Escape from definitions and you will breathe again!

-Ionesco, Exit the King

"One regret, dear world,

That I am determined not to have

When I am lying on my deathbed

Is that

I did not kiss you enough."

-Hafiz