This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
JACK KEROUACSome of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The only truth is music.
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