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It's only through form that we can realize emptiness. (Jack Kerouac)
And then we'll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time! View quote
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It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever. View quote
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you. View quote
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh. View quote
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines. View quote
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty? View quote
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A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be. View quote
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As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing. View quote
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The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven. View quote
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I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this. (Jack Kerouac)
Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize "The stars are words" and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind. View quote
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth. View quote
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Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me. View quote
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I'm writing this book because we're all going to die. View quote
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Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious. View quote
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What's in store for me in the direction I don't take? View quote
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. View quote
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The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me. View quote
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Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot! View quote
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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim. (Jack Kerouac)
Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that. View quote
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Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance. View quote
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i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway. View quote
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A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved. View quote
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