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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.

Jack Kerouac

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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Bright Day Light Need Photography Rain Sun
You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Knowledge Myself Surprise Yourself
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Confusion Myself Offering
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Feeling Guilty Human Myself Race
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
Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Believe Holy Life One Liner
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame Yourself
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Acceptance Life Love Yourself
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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Art Dedication Dreams Myself Sleep Suffering
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Location Silence
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Leadership Road Spiritual World
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
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Equality Idol Inspirational Yourself
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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Argument Dog God Love Master Wisdom
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Bitter Fierce Myself People Result True
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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Borrow Life Live Worth Yourself

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