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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Jack Kerouac

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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Money Myself Possible Understand Work
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Leadership Road Spiritual World
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Crazy Hands Myself Stars
The beauty of things must be that they end.
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Beautiful Deep End Wisdom
You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Knowledge Myself Surprise Yourself
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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Heaven Kindness Practice Yourself
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Equality Idol Inspirational 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
The silence was an intense roar.
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Intense One Liner Silence Sound
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Bed Better Comfortable Freedom Sleep
I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Death Give Up Laughter Myself Promise
Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Goodness Life Love Rich
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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Enjoyment Live Myself Nature Need Solitude Stop Thinking
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
Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Soul Wait Yourself
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Confusion Myself Offering

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