“We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.”
Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll
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American writer 1922–1969Related quotes

“Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.”
Source: The House of Hades

“Variations on a Philosopher” in Themes and Variations (1943), p. 2

“Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.”
As quoted in Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion (1856) by Anna Cabot Lowell, Vol. 1, p. 260