Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
JACK KEROUACBut, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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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?
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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