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The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.
“The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.”
— Jack Kerouac · Catholic
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“The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.”
“It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.”
“Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.”
“All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.”
“Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.”
“I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.”
“I'm a Catholic.”
“I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.”
“There are only two or three places in Britain with Catholic and Protestant cathedrals,and Liverpool is one. My wife Montse and I like to go to both of them.”
“I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.”
“I'm a Catholic, and not because I just happened to wake up as a Catholic. I'm not going to be persuaded on any topic, especially not that.”
“The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.”