Quotes About Freedom

the bar was the best place to hide in. time came under your control, time to wade in, time to do nothing in. no guru was needed, no god. nothing expected but yourself and nothing lost to the unexpected.

to die with your boots on while writing poetry is not as glorious as riding a horse down Broadway with a stick of dynamite in your teeth

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it. Basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them...

but when I see those lovely old boxcars with their faded painted lettering and those flat cars and those fat round tankers all lined up and waiting I get quiet inside I get what other men get from other things I just feel better and it's good to feel better whenever you can not needing a reason.

I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.

How could men live with women? What did it mean? What I wanted was a cave in Colorado with three-years' worth of foodstuffs and drink. I'd wipe my ass with sand. Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

we finally got free of one another. it's sad but it's standard operating procedure (I am constantly confused by the lack of durability in human affairs).

What? You mean you'd dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?" "That's when you need a drink the most.

I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything.

after you've pulled off the tablecloth with the full plates of food and broken the windows and rung the bells of idiots and have spoken true and terrible words and have chased the mob through the doorway- then comes the great and peaceful moment: sitting alone and pouring that quiet drink. the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them. they wait as I fill their glasses.

They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes—they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out—they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps.

The less i needed the better i felt.

too much acceptance destroys. so listen, my fine fellows and ladies, I am going to ignore your late applause, I intend to still play it loose, commit my errors, enrage the entrenched and piss upon your guardians, angels and / or devils. I intend to do what I have to do, what I have always done. it's been too much fun to falter now.  you will not escape my iron grip and I will escape yours.

La gente la sera è in libertà provvisoria dalle fabbriche, dai magazzini, dalle stazioni di servizio, dai macelli. Il giorno dopo tornano dentro, ma adesso sono fuori, ubriachi di libertà. Non pensano alla schiavitù della povertà. I ricchi staranno bene finché i poveri non impareranno a costruire bombe atomiche nei loro seminterrati

I like to choose. I have to care.

Siempre es bueno saber que puedes vivir sin una persona sin la que pensabas que nunca serías capaz de vivir.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

how to do it" will never create an Art, it will never shake the old skin, it will never get us out of here.

Sometimes we can become too holy and therefore, caged.

Oyleyse okur,catlak Jimmy`i bir an icin birakip Arthur`a gecelim -ki hic sorun degil- yazma tarzimi kastediyorum burada : sa[a sola sicarim ve siz de hic zorlanmadan benimle gelirsiniz. Hic onemi yoktur,gorursunuz.

Tabi,Hank ne zaman istersen bende sicabilirsin.

whatya wanna hear on the juke?" I asked. "anything. anything you like." I loaded the thing. I didn't know who I was but I could load a juke box.

insan?n kendini nedenini bilmeksizin iyi hissetmesi ne güzel: ya da s?n?rl? bile olsa seçimi olabilmesi; ya da biraz aÅŸk?, nefrete dönüÅŸmeyen.

Que sonho bom: nunca mais olhar na cara de outro ser humano.