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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.

Jack Kerouac

I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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Death Give Up Holy Laughter Myself Promise World
I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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Act Cry Feeling World Yourself
If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Story True Wrong Yourself
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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People Phone Poetry
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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Day Dreams Night True
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Confusion Myself Offering
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Location Silence
A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Smile Social Teeth
There’s wisdom in wine.
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One Liner Wine Wisdom
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Control Failure Mistake Myself Passion
While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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Darkness Enlightenment Light True Wisdom
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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Experience Health Hide Learning Life Man Solitude Strength True
The silence was an intense roar.
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Intense One Liner Silence Sound
You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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Inspirational Motivational Planning Success World Yourself
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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Deep See Thinking Wake Up
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular

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