“There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story people tell about you. The only thing that matters is your name.”
Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 11 (p. 121)
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V
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“Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.”
A misquote. It derives from an interview that journalist Bruce Cook conducted with Kerouac in 1968 and reported in his book The Beat Generation (1971). According to Cook, Kerouac explained to him his method of writing: "I'll just sit down and let it flow out of me ... It's the Holy Ghost that comes through you. You don't have to be a Catholic to know what I mean, and you don't have to be a Catholic for the Holy Ghost to speak through you." Source of misquote.
Source: The Veneration of Life: Through the Disease to the Soul (1999), p. 9
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