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" I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because 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... "
Ecstasy of the Beats: On the Road to Understanding - Page 26
by David Creighton - 2007 - 317 pages
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The Dark Ages, Life in the United States, 1945-1960

Marty Jezer - 1982 - 346 pages
...adult world assigned them. PART THREE: "This Little Light..." (for alien Hoffman, 1943-1971) ...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who...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...
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The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century

Michael Davidson - 1991 - 272 pages
...I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad 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...
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On Bohemia: The Code of the Self-Exiled

César Graña, Marigay Graña - 1990 - 840 pages
...corruption but of spiritual death. "The only people for me," says Sal Paradise, the narrator of On the Road, are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad...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...
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On the Road

Jack Kerouac - 2002 - 354 pages
...as I've been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yearn or say a commonplace thing . . ....
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Why Americans Hate Politics

E.J. Dionne - 2004 - 436 pages
..."The only people for me are the mad ones," declares Kerouac's narrator and alter ego, Sal Paradise, "the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, delirious of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn,...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...dingledodies, and I shambled after us I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who...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...
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Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960

Joanne Jay Meyerowitz - 1994 - 424 pages
...Moriarity, the hero of On the Road, conveys the appeal of leaving, of finding life: "The only possible people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad...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 roman candles."36...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who...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...
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The Spirit of the Sixties: Making Postwar Radicalism

James J. Farrell - 1997 - 370 pages
...vitality and intensity that made everyday life seem empty. "The only people for me," said Kerouac, "are the mad ones . . . the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn or save a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman...
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Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac

Ellis Amburn - 1999 - 468 pages
...street. "I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who...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...
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